{"id":460206,"date":"2010-03-22T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100319\/1538218638.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-22T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:40:00","slug":"hollywood-continues-to-make-up-facts-ap-continues-to-parrot-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/460206","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Continues To Make Up Facts; AP Continues To Parrot Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the MPAA’s latest target for crackdowns on camcording appears to be India. You may remember that it went through a series of questionable claims<\/a> about camcording in Canada and the US, where if you looked at the math, none of it added up. Apparently, the same thing is happening in India and the reporters at the Associated Press don’t feel the need to investigate bogus Hollywood numbers. In this AP report about the MPAA’s new “crackdown” on camcording in India, the reporter says that camcording is to blame for 90% of “pirated” movies<\/a>:<\/p>\n


\nA year in the making, the coalition to fight film piracy in India will work with movie theaters to crack down on camcorder piracy — the source of 90 percent of all pirated DVDs — with police to tighten enforcement, with Internet service providers to fight Internet piracy and with politicians to create more effective laws.
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With these big professional reporters, you might think they would try to fact check a claim like “90% of all “pirated” DVDs come from camcorded movies.” They might have trouble doing that, because the actual research suggests something quite different. A study<\/a> that we wrote about a few years ago found<\/a> otherwise. Specifically, it found that “77% appear to have been leaked originally by industry insiders.”<\/p>\n

But, of course, we need to save the AP, because they do real fact checking, right?<\/p>\n

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