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"post hoc ergo propter hoc"
by shaggyfrog 13y ago
"post hoc ergo propter hoc"
- batiudrami 13y agoIs there anything else which has happened recently in the Canadian media space which could have led to the decrease? I understand that we should be careful with correlation/causation, but it seems like a fairly reasonable connection.
- Karunamon 13y agoI've always regarded these piracy statistics with great suspicion, regardless of the point the person pushing them is trying to make (even then, usually any comments made about piracy statistics are by media industry types banging on about how they're close to bankruptcy or similar). I assume they're doing something like connecting to a random swarm and counting IPs, problem is that makes a number of faulty assumptions: * 1 IP = 1 person * Person on the swarm is necessarily there to download * Person on the swarm is necessarily downloading something they don't have a license for * Person on the swarm is necessarily consuming the media they're downloading (some people just like to collect) * Public trackers are the only means of pirating via torrent * Other mediums are completely ignored (IRC/Usenet/HTTP sites/EDonkey/DC++/etc etc etc etc)