Hollywood Attacks Scholars Who Deny The Evils of Piracy
A common theme is developing. Every time a study attempts to recognize that piracy is not all doom and gloom, industry lobbyists jump in to discredit the research. This happened again this week when the MPAA “debunked” a London School of Economics paper that countered several industry conclusions regarding online piracy. Talking to TorrentFreak, one of the report’s authors says that Hollywood’s response is totally expected and exemplary of the ideological distortion of the file-sharing debate.
In recent months the MPAA has made a habit of attacking every paper which suggests that piracy may not actually be that big of a problem after all.
While the movie industry group often raises valid points, the critique is also one-sided. Much like the critique often voiced by pro-sharing opponents, it’s merely reinforcing their existing beliefs.
Yesterday the MPAA “debunked” the findings of a policy brief the London School of Economics and Political Science published last week.
In their report the scholars noted that there is ample evidence that file-sharing is helping, rather than hurting the creative industries. The scholars therefore called on the Government to look at more objective data when deciding on future copyright enforcement policies.
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