[IP] AP article on MPAA mistake (fwd)

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: chodge5@utk.edu
Date: January 23, 2008 8:38:15 AM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: [CIO] AP article on MPAA mistake (fwd)


This was sent out on the CIO list by Mark Luker, EDUCAUSE VP (and their
point person for file sharing).

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j33CBI8sUdc5ni7RlxSj5SIEc2mwD8UB6S0O2

In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of  
America
claimed that 44 percent of the industry's domestic losses came from
illegal downloading of movies by college students, who often have access
to high-bandwidth networks on campus.

The MPAA has used the study to pressure colleges to take tougher steps  
to
prevent illegal file-sharing and to back legislation currently before  
the
House of Representatives that would force them to do so.

But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has
told education groups a "human error" in that survey caused it to get  
the
number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of
revenue loss.




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