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Hidden 2015 European Commission Report on Copyright Infringement

posted by Fnord666 on Monday September 25 2017, @05:53PM   
from the surprising dept.

canopic jug writes:

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?"

• The blog post by MEP Julia Reda, Pirate Party, Germany: What the Commission found out about copyright infringement but 'forgot' to tell us.
   
• TorrentFreak: EU Piracy Report Suppression Raises Questions Over Transparency
• RT: Piracy doesn't impact sales: Pirate Party MEP unearths €360k European Commission report
• Newsweek: Inside the Piracy Study the European Union Hid: Illegal Downloads Don't Harm Overall Sales
• TheNextWeb: iEU paid for a report that concluded piracy isn't harmful — and tried to hide the findings
• The Inquirer: The EC accused of burying a report that found that piracy isn't that costly
• HotHardware: EU Study Hidden For Two Years Concluded That Digital Piracy Doesn't Affect Sales
• ... and many others ...

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• Re:Simple Re:Simple (Score: 4, Funny) by maxwell demon on Monday September 25 2017, @07:57PM (2 children)

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday September 25 2017, @07:57PM (#572772) Journal

  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.

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• Re:Simple Re:Simple (Score: 2) by vux984 on Monday September 25 2017, @08:08PM (1 child)

  by vux984 (5045) on Monday September 25 2017, @08:08PM (#572775)

  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...

  Notes

  Update 01/06/2015.

  This project is put on the back-burner now. However, I aim to finish uploading the materials sometime this year.

  Update 18/01/2015.

  Moving all the contents from word files to Sphinx project has proven to be more time consuming than I originally thought. Getting the ver. 1.0 ready will take weeks.

  Update

  Moving stuff from Word files into reStructuredText is tedious. This is work in progress as of January 2015.

  :p

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  • Re:Simple (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @08:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @08:56PM (#572794)

    The language's name, Python, is a Monte Python reference, and MP references are encouraged in the example code snippets.

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