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The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales [2017] (gizmodo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The European Digital Rights organization suggested in a blog post that the full contents of this report was intentionally suppressed, pointing to a 2016 academic paper by two Commission officials. The paper, “Movie Piracy and Displaced Sales in Europe,” only mentioned the part of the Ecory report that highlights the relationship between piracy and blockbuster film lost sales, and excluded the other findings of the report. Additionally, the paper didn’t even disclose that the cited information came from Ecory’s study.

This is really damning. They didn't publish the study, then misrepresented it and only cited the small comment that agreed with their bias.