{"id":25612,"date":"2012-01-20T13:08:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T20:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/20\/researching-the-cost-of-piracy.html"},"modified":"2012-01-23T20:52:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T03:52:52","slug":"researching-the-cost-of-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/20\/researching-the-cost-of-piracy.html","title":{"rendered":"Researching the cost of piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wherein the author tries to track down all those Massive Piracy Problem numbers that media companies and congressfolk keep bandying about &#8230; and discovers there&#39;s not much <i>there<\/i> there.<\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;Clearly the entertainment industry doesn&#39;t need help with its piracy problem. It needs help with its poor grasp of math.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hardly surprising.  I learned early in my days of High School Debate that juicy factoids usually don&#39;t hold up to serious source scrutiny &#8212; so are best just repeated and moved on from quickly.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/security\/242587\/best-evidence-showing-we-need-sopa-based-govt-studies-never-existed'>Best evidence showing we need SOPA based on &#39;govt studies&#39; that never existed<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNo one disputes very seriously that there is a lot of content piracy going on, especially online. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/UodBryHX6k2' target='_new'>1<\/a> times <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherein the author tries to track down all those Massive Piracy Problem numbers that media companies and congressfolk keep bandying about &#8230; and discovers there&#39;s not much there there. &quot;Clearly the entertainment industry doesn&#39;t need help with its piracy problem. It needs help with its poor grasp of math.&quot; Hardly surprising. I learned early in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/20\/researching-the-cost-of-piracy.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Researching the cost of piracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,79,28],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-intellectual-property","category-media-moguls","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26107,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/the-movie-piracy-problem-described-and-solved-in-three-simple-pages.html","url_meta":{"origin":25612,"position":0},"title":"The Movie Piracy Problem Described and Solved in Three Simple Pages","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Feb-12 11:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"No, really. 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