Link: The Associated Press: MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study.
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.
Nel 2005 dicevano che il 44% delle perdite in USA erano a causa del P2P nei college. Oggi dicono il 15%.
"We take this error very seriously and have taken strong and
immediate action to both investigate the root cause of this problem as
well as substantiate the accuracy of the latest report," the group said
in a statement.
"Mo' dobbiamo capire perche' abbiamo sbagliato"
"Illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing is
a society-wide problem. Some of it occurs at college s and universities
but it is a small portion of the total," he said, adding colleges will
continue to take the problem seriously, but more regulation isn't
necessary
"comunque il P2P nelle università è solo una piccola parte del problema"
