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Taking Pirated Copies Offline Can Benefit Book Sales, Research Finds. (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 3 months ago by ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They reached out to several major publishers and partnered with an anti-piracy outfit, to test whether takedown efforts have a measurable effect on legitimate book sales... While the researchers found a small positive effect in the takedown category, it wasn’t pronounced enough to be statistically significant. Only after the researchers tried a Bayesian analysis, adding data from previous research, did they find an uptick in book sales.

Sounds like fair and unbiased science. \s

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

The fun part is "statistically significant" is already a nonsense bar that doesn't imply causation.