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The MPAA Error

By Michael Geist

Lots of people have written to note that the MPAA has now acknowledged a major error in much-promoted study about the impact of movie piracy.  Having overstated those numbers so fundamentally - and relied upon them before the U.S. Congress - it must surely raise questions about the accuracy of other data, notably the claims that the industry used to convince the Canadian government to introduce anti-camcording legislation.  There have been all of two arrests in Canada in seven months since the new provision was enacted.

Full post as published by Michael Geist on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).