Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation
Ars Technica alum Julian Sanchez has a timely redux of the research he did on how the made-up piracy numbers quoted during debates about SOPA and PIPA come from, and how little relation they bear to reality. It seems like every discussion of SOPA/PIPA includes a phrase like “Everyone agrees that piracy is huge problem,” but in fact, the “huge problem” they’re agreeing on has been inflated to farcical proportions through the most transparent financial funny business.
Via boingboing.net
Where the funny piracy numbers used to justify SOPA/PIPA spring from
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