{"id":197588,"date":"2008-01-23T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/in-other-unsurprising-news-the-mpaa-is-a-bunch-of-lying-jackals\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T04:34:00","slug":"in-other-unsurprising-news-the-mpaa-is-a-bunch-of-lying-jackals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/in-other-unsurprising-news-the-mpaa-is-a-bunch-of-lying-jackals\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Unsurprising News, the MPAA is a Bunch of Lying Jackals*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetmachine.com\/totsf\/item\/1013\">Harold Feld ads some fact checking to MPAA claims<\/a> that, &#8220;40% of industry loses from internet piracy could be traced to file sharing at universities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LEK Consulting Services, which did the research for the MPAA, has now released its methodology, and <strong>based on their own numbers<\/strong>, the file sharing through university computing services is about 3%.<\/p>\n<p>They used this study to justify attempts to use legislation to coerce universities to lock down their networks in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> expensive ways, and to make the penalties for such activities worse than murder.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">No offense intended to Jackals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Harold Feld ads some fact checking to MPAA claims that, &#8220;40% of industry loses from internet piracy could be traced to file sharing at universities.&#8221; LEK Consulting Services, which did the research for the MPAA, has now released its methodology, and based on their own numbers, the file sharing through university computing services is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,969,1109,978,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-evil","category-ip","category-politics","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}