MPAA Piracy Survey - Junk Research
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 21 August 2004
Alwayson network claims that a recent survey conducted by Online Testing Exchange (OTX) and distributed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is crap. The MPAA's summary of the survey claims, among other hard-to-believe assertions, that 'about one in four Internet users have downloaded a movie.' (It turns out this isn't true, but this is the factoid that was heard around the world the following week.) When did you stop trusting sponsored 'research'?
Sponsored surveys produce rarely results which put a bad light on the sponsors. The thought, that the results are simply a paid PR campaign is too overwhelming. Just like Bill's Anti-Linux surveys.