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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 ...

Original Submission

1. "canopic jug" - https://soylentnews.org/~canopic+jug/
2. "Estimating displacement rates of copyrighted content in the EU" - https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf
3. "What the Commission found out about copyright infringement but 'forgot' to tell us" - https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/secret-copyright-infringement-study/
4. "EU Piracy Report Suppression Raises Questions Over Transparency" - https://torrentfreak.com/eu-piracy-report-suppression-raises-questions-transparency-170922/
5. "Piracy doesn't impact sales: Pirate Party MEP unearths €360k European Commission report" - https://www.rt.com/news/404204-european-commission-piracy-report/
6. "Inside the Piracy Study the European Union Hid: Illegal Downloads Don't Harm Overall Sales" - http://www.newsweek.com/secret-piracy-study-european-union-669436
7. "iEU paid for a report that concluded piracy isn't harmful — and tried to hide the findings" - https://thenextweb.com/eu/2017/09/21/eu-paid-report-concluded-piracy-isnt-harmful-tried-hide-findings/
8. "The EC accused of burying a report that found that piracy isn't that costly" - https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3017892/the-ec-accused-of-burying-a-report-that-found-that-piracy-isnt-that-costly
9. "EU Study Hidden For Two Years Concluded That Digital Piracy Doesn't Affect Sales" - https://hothardware.com/news/european-commission-report-hidden-for-two-years-says-digital-piracy-doesnt-affect-sales
10. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=22429

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