[LINK] Piracy stats don't add up

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Tue Nov 7 08:49:18 AEDT 2006


At 7:58 +1100 7/11/06, Kim Holburn wrote:
>Peer review anyone?
>
>http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20713160%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
>>  Piracy stats don't add up
>>  Simon Hayes
>>  NOVEMBER 07, 2006
>>  PIRACY statistics are labelled "self-serving hyperbole" in a draft 
>>government report. ...

Kim just beat me to posting this one.

My added comment was:

The acid's now on the Institute of Criminology to clean up the 
language of an intemperately-worded draft, without undermining its 
conclusions ... and its own credibility.

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