Cause of Piracy Study (and a lil bit of effect)

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kitler53 said:

vlad321 said:

To counter the many one-sided piracy studies that have been released by the entertainment industry in recent history, a group of dozens of academics have bundled their powers to write the most objective and elaborate piracy study to date. As many would have predicted, the results differ quite significantly from the message pro-copyright lobby groups have put out over the years.

i'll read the whole article eventually but in the first sentence you already have a laughably contridicative statement.  you can't be objectitive if your study is made to counter an argument.

You can be objective and still counter another study if you know the other studies are biased. Would that not be the counter to a biased article, an unbiased one?