Comments on: Megaupload Shutdown Boosted TV and VOD Services

By: Skoolingu

Skoolingu — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:44:00 +0000

There are ways to tease causation out of correlation. When these ways are used appropriately, you actually do get a true causal answer. And statistically illiterate morons like you still come around throwing out “correlation is not causation” as if it somehow invalidates the study.

You have no idea how stupid you sound right now by throwing that sentence out like it’s a magic wand against arguments you don’t like.

If you want to improve you game, explain why the correlation that was shown may not be causal.

If you don’t believe the data, that’s fine.

On the other hand, if the data are real, it’s hard to explain why these services which receive such a fast and large spike right after the Megaupload shutdown (12 days following). If something else caused it, it would have to be awfully coincidental.

Perhaps you could mention that you’d like to see what the trend in traffic for these legal services looked like in the days before hte shutdown, to see if this increase is merely a continuation of a prior growth trend or if it represents a discrete increase just following the shutdown.

By: phoque

phoque — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:23:00 +0000

“this will be true for all figures from then on”: Once a liar, always a liar. Unless they can prove that those gathering the data now are different from the previous employees. And that the people doing the hiring are also different.

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By: VeryTired

VeryTired — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:03:00 +0000

Way to prove that these idiots were right about piracy cutting into media profits. -.-’ Morons.

By: LikeDudeWtf

LikeDudeWtf — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:55:00 +0000

right … i can see by the answers i don’t really need to explain this but anyone who is even remotely familiar with ‘the scene’ will know that this is utter bollocks and pro-paganda Hadopi-side. Taking down one channel like megaupload leaves what? a few thousand others? How this could lead to a direct increase of as much as 26% is pretty much unbelievable and very improbable so they have probably been very creative in their interpretaion of the numbers. It is and will remain a sad fact that the majority of people just swallow this kind of shit without thinking so i guess it’s up to the rest of us to keep them well-informed, at least the ones who’d listen. I don’t know if there’s even one tenth of ‘the people’ worth fighting for, if you’re down, most of them would just kick you a little deeper in the mud and howl with the rest of the hyenas at the moon so as not to stand out and get noticed. Sad, but true

By: Megaupload Closure Boosts Video on Demand and Online TV - My Blog

Megaupload Closure Boosts Video on Demand and Online TV - My Blog — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:04:38 +0000

[...] Megaupload was followed by estimable commission rises for online TV and video-on-demand services. The TorrentFreak blog reports: Hadopi contend they used information collected by Médiamétrie/ Netratings on approximately 50 [...]

By: Zamkni?cie Megaupload ukróci?o piractwo we Francji? « vBeta.pl

Zamkni?cie Megaupload ukróci?o piractwo we Francji? « vBeta.pl — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:21:44 +0000

[...] nowa ustawa antypiracka, a potem z Sieci znikn?? Megaupload wraz z Megavideo. Jak donosi TorrentFreak, w efekcie tych wydarze? Francuzi coraz cz??ciej przerzucaj? si? na legalne [...]

By: Fanen A.

Fanen A. — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:47:00 +0000

Hasn’t anyone got the balls to analyse bittorrent traffic in the wake of the mega upload shutdown? I suspect that torrents saw a major rise.

By: ndmushroom

ndmushroom — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:29:00 +0000

Did those HADOPI genii realize that Allostreaming also shut down a few days before MU was taken offline? For some strange reason I have a feeling that the disappearance of a popular french streaming site might have more to do with the rise in other streaming sites than the MU case.

By: Sin4Sale

Sin4Sale — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:24:00 +0000

If the figures are true, they just proved it’s not all about getting things for free like the pro-copyright morons keep insisting. It’s about convenience and availability, just like it has always been. If the best service is free, the mases will use that. If the best service costs money, the masses will use that. Legitimacy is, and always will be, irrelevant. So thank you, Hadopi, for giving us the proof we needed to backup what we’ve been trying to get across to Hollywood for the better part of a decade now.