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The lack of links to sources in that article is disturbing. Requiring users find each of their sources is evil, and I suspect intentional. I believe this might
by e2le 3y ago
The lack of links to sources in that article is disturbing. Requiring users find each of their sources is evil, and I suspect intentional.
I believe this might be their source:
https://www.creativefuture.org/new-study-the-size-and-scope-of-global-internet-piracy-is-on-the-rise-video/ https://www.creativefuture.org/new-study-the-size-and-scope-...
Which links to a Los Angeles Times article [1] from 2013, but not the study. The Los Angeles Times article also lacks a link to the study quoted. According to Creative Future, the study came from NetNames [2].
I did find some other interesting [3] articles [4] published on the Creative Future site.
[1]: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-ct-piracy-bandwith-20130917-story.html https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetNames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetNames
[3]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Acreativefuture.org%2F+bandwidth https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Acreativefuture.org%2F+bandw...
[4]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Acreativefuture.org%2F+piracy https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Acreativefuture.org%2F+pirac...
The NetNames site is no longer active however it was archived [5], the full report is missing. This is infuriating. If the study cannot be read, it might as well not exist.
I found a Torrent Freak article from 2013 [6] with more details.
[5]: https://web.archive.org/web/20131005143240/http://www.netnames.com/sizing_the_piracy_universe https://web.archive.org/web/20131005143240/http://www.netnam...
[6]: https://torrentfreak.com/432-million-pirates-share-9567-petabytes-a-month-130917/ https://torrentfreak.com/432-million-pirates-share-9567-peta...