A Tale Of Two Studies: Can File Sharing Both Harm And Help Sales? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130321/10201522406/tale-two-studies-can-... "In those cases, both studies "make sense," but the lessons they suggest may be somewhat different than the lessons put forth by the supporters of the studies. The authors and supporters of the MPAA study suggest that this proves that shutting down unauthorized sites is a reasonable goal. I think that may be looking too narrowly at the results, and discounting how much people are focused on the "most convenient" solution. An even better solution is to provide more convenient offerings, which would win over customers from unauthorized sites even if they aren't taken down." -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero http://it.linkedin.com/pub/alessandro-mantelero/29/723/a48 https://twitter.com/mantelero Department of Management and Production Engineering Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy in libertate fortitudo