Last week, Minister of the European Parliament, Julia Reda, unearthed a well-hidden 2014 study financed by the European Commission entitled Estimating displacement rates of copyrighted content in the EU [warning: PDF] that studied the effects of copyright infringement on sales. The study cost 360,000 EUR to carry out and although it was ready in 2015, it was only made public last week when Reda was able to get ahold of a copy.
The study's conclusion was that with the exception of recently released blockbusters, there is no evidence to support the idea that online copyright infringement displaces sales. This conclusion is consistent with previous studies, and raises the following question: "Why did the Commission, after having spent a significant amount of money on it, choose not to publish this study for almost two years?"
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @07:08PM (4 children)
Python references are always good for a +n Funny :-)
(Score: 4, Funny) by maxwell demon on Monday September 25 2017, @07:57PM (2 children)
Then this [readthedocs.io] should be a source of endless laughing. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Monday September 25 2017, @08:08PM (1 child)
Hah. Going into it with a 'monty python' as my frame of reference, and then skimming the first few paragraphs... I got a very decidely... pythonesque... or at least Douglas Adam's vibe from it; and I wasn't immediately sure if it was serious or satire...
:p
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @08:56PM
The language's name, Python, is a Monte Python reference, and MP references are encouraged in the example code snippets.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @08:12PM
i thought of the three stooges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Sy6oiJbEk [youtube.com]