BenRoudenis.com » File Sharing http://benroudenis.com Optimism is the best substitute for knowledge. Mon, 30 May 2011 16:56:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers http://benroudenis.com/technology/how-uk-government-spun-136-people-into-7m-illegal-file-sharers http://benroudenis.com/technology/how-uk-government-spun-136-people-into-7m-illegal-file-sharers#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:06:16 +0000 Benjamin Roudenis http://benroudenis.com/?p=132 The Radio 4 show More or Less – which is devoted to the “often abused but ever ubiquitous world of numbers” – decided to examine the Government’s claim that 7m people in Britain are engaged in illegal file sharing.

The 7m figure had actually been rounded up from an actual figure of 6.7m. That 6.7m was gleaned from a 2008 survey of 1,176 net-connected households, 11.6% of which admitted to having used file-sharing software – in other words, only 136 people.

How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers [PC Pro]

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