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The European commission study you're referring to a) said that piracy did make a difference on Hollywood films (it said it didn't make much difference in other
by Mindwipe 9y ago
The European commission study you're referring to a) said that piracy did make a difference on Hollywood films (it said it didn't make much difference in other sectors, but for major films it did) and b) had such enormous margins of error it was essentially worthless.
You're not helping your case by bringing up evidence you don't site except for one example where it showed the opposite to your claims
- belorn 9y agoThe report states: "In general, the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements. That does not necessarily mean that piracy has no effect but only that the statistical analysis does not prove with sufficient reliability that there is an effect. An exception is the displacement of recent top films." The difference is not for all Hollywood films, a finding that I recall other studies have found before the EU one when they looked at movies that got leaked before a cinema release. But comparing Cinema DRM to EME is like Apples to oranges, they are not the same thing. Cinema DRM is not intended for end users.
- tinus_hn 9y agoSo in general it doesn’t show anything, except for top movies.