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cadadr@toot.cat ("word stress stresses Göktuğ 📚") wrote:
EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales
https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-piracy-no-sales-impact.html
In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU. However, it never ended up showing it to the public except for one cherry-picked section. That's possibly because the study concluded that there was no evidence that piracy affects copyrighted sales, and in the case of video games, might actually help them.
The study: https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf