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Re:The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales by res0nat0r on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @02:23AM (#5367131)
If this study found that MU had positive effects on sales most of these comments doubting the voracity of the study wouldn't be posted, they'd be believed without any questions asked.
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Re:The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales by Semaphor on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:54AM (#5367862)
The study posted in favor of MU (or at least neutral effect) got pretty much no comments at all. Might have been because it was a post linking a 3rd source (secondary source being Torrentfreak and primary the study on SSRN).
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Re:The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales by pyre on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @08:10AM (#5367906)
The truth of the conclusions, and the level of rigor in arriving at them would be unaffected by whether or not people would be pointing them out, or looking for issues with the paper.
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Re:The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales by pimentel on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @05:23AM (#5367530)
Yeah, but no MPAA funded study would reach that conclusion.
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