How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal file sharers
In summa: The British Governments official figures of those involved in file sharing came from UCL who got it a paper who didn’t actually mention a 7m figure but the author said he did write that in a different paper he wrote privatley for the British Phonographic Industry.
But there’s more… They only asked 1,176 people meaning it was only 136 people who were file sharers. The 7m was it was based on 40m people being online in Britain, but the official figure at that time was only 33.9m. Furthermore the 7m was actually a rounding of 6.7m which was adjusted upwards by 5.3% to reflect the “people who might have lied”.
This means that without fudging every number they came across the government figure should only be 5.6m.
2 years ago