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Originally Posted by ekbell
I'm left wondering how reliable are the statistics. Was it a random survey? Were there demographic differences in who choose to respond?
Or was this some self-selected group of people frequenting a particular place or website?
Without information on how the information was gathered Ifind it hard to take any survey seriously.
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You are right to wonder.
Buried in the article is the source of the report: DIGIMARC, a company that exists to sell "anti-piracy" tools. They are also a regular source of studies that make piracy out to be a big threat:
https://www.digimarc.com/application/copyright
One would hardly expect them to be issuing studies that might suggest piracy has no real economic impact on rights holders.