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Ben Goldacre lifts the lid on illegal downloads
Posted by PFacto on 7 June 2009 - 8:04am.
In his Bad Science Guardian column this week, Ben analyses recent press reports on the billions that illegal downloads are supposedly robbing the economy:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/05/ben-goldacre-bad-sci...
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Not that the Letters editor read Goldacre's piece...
With quotes from the Sabip report and a defense by someone from FACT.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/06/music-illegal-downloads
And the some of those 'recent press reports' were in the grauniad too: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/29/british-economy-free-do...
Surely the 'home taping is kiling music' arguments have been well and truely squeezed to death: Music fans 'tape' but buy too, non-music fans get music as cheaply as they can...
What's with 'grauniad'?
Lots of people write that and I don't get it...
it was famed at one point for having an inordinate
number of tripos, sorry tiptoes, er, typers
typos
It's a old "private eye" joje
and Like a lot of private eye jokes needs putting to rest. The Guardian was "famous" at one time for spelling mistakes and the world is full of people for whom grammar is the only important thing to get angry about hence all the endless comments about comma and plurals you see.
Nicely punctuated, Chris!
:-)
Coruscating stuff.
Private Eye joke
It's from Private Eye - the Guardian has a reputation for a higher proportion of typos than other newspapers. Also used as a running gag on "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue".
"You Know You're A Member Of The Word Massive"
You Know You're A Member Of The Word Massive when you are one of three people helpfully explaining a joke at ten past nine on a Sunday morning!
I read the orginal report
and was just dismayed that government policy was potentially based on such a poor document. It was filled with huge assumptions , it seemed to think that the "creative industries" were losng out of about a 3rd of the annual wage in lost revenues. It was doubly sad as in the buried detail of the report they argued all the sensible views but the headlines they chose to promote where sensationlist nonsense.