“A $250 billion per year loss would be almost $800 for every man, woman, and child in America. And 750,000 jobs – that’s twice the number of those employed in the entire motion picture industry in 2010. The good news is that the numbers are wrong. In 2010, the Government Accountability Office released a report noting that these figures ‘cannot be substantiated or traced back to an underlying data source or methodology,’ which is polite government-speak for ‘these figures were made up out of thin air.’”
The Freakonomics guys call bullshit on the MPAA’s piracy numbers (via maxistentialist)
Gee, the MPAA made it up. Quelle surprise. Je ne suis pas ne lapin heureux.
(via carnivaloftherandom)
WHY WE SHOULD BE SCARED OF SOPA: THE MOVIE
Here’s a really easy-to-understand mini-doc about PIPA and SOPA from New Left Media.
Check it out.
