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Originally Posted by aceflor
It is probably the only french person he would know of  .....
One lobby group biased presentation of the also biased work of an opposite lobby group does not "bake" a valid news article. Never has, never will.
As your sig says so à propos : "Remember, no matter what they say, people don't want the truth, just their prejudices reinforced."
I agree with sabredog, and being french myself, in this particular case, I really know what I am talking about. |
(I think your biases are showing...)
More seriously...Did the rate of hits to "pirate" sites go down after Hadopi? Answer - yes, dramatically. That's a fact. Some may have the opinion that that is good, others that that may be bad. I am voicing no opinion, merely observing a fact.
Second fact. Sales did not go up during the same period. Once again, that's a fact. Once again, I'm voicing no opinion, merely obsering a fact. I did not have these facts before I read the article.
Now I can evaluate my
opinions with more facts than I had. I can also evaluate other
opinions based on more facts. I don't see how this is bad. It might change my
opinions, based on experimental tests. Because that is what France has done, effectively, is run a test on their populace. Does more rigorous legal sanctions reduce "piracy" as they drafters defined it? Does it cause former "pirates" to purchase instead of "pirating"? After a year, there are now numbers to check with. In 5 years there will be more rigorous numbers to work with (longer baseline). I don't see any reason to throw out the numbers because I don't like the source. I'll throw them out if I can find a more reliable source (and the original number prove to be wrong), but not until then...
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