MPAA Screws Up College Piracy Estimates By Up To 41%

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Kouroth

I’ve only ever met a few hard-core pirates and all of them do it mostly out if spite now.
http://blog.theavclub.tv andy cochrane

i posted a pretty lengthy rant about the mpaa and riaa on the two blogs i write for yesterday- i won’t reiterate basically this is just one reason that those two institutions will fail, and in doing so will probably take their entire industries (as we know them) down with them. i really can’t stand this behavior.
http://pspMODSRUS Sario27

all i have to say is, why make such a big deal about it that only promotes the idea.
Yocto

Your title is totally misleading, as it suggests a factor of 0.41.

Percentages are relative proportions. You can’t just take the difference (44% – 3% = 41%) of these numbers. The value decreased by a factor of 1 – (3 / 44) = 0.9318… that is 93.2 percent. Or, there’s 6.8% left of their original claims. In other words, these gentlemen exaggerated by a whopping factor of 44 / 3 = 14.66…

Thus (let’s be generous and round down), the correct title should be “MPAA Screws Up College Piracy Estimates By Up To 1466%”.