According to a drafty study commissioned by the office of the Australian Attorney General, statistics used by the digital media and software industries are a ‘self-serving hyperbole’ with no evidence to back up the claims. Furthermore, the study states that the copyright holders fail to explain how the reach the conclusions they then use when pursuing litigation.
Figures for 2005 from the global Business Software Association showing $361 million a year of lost sales in Australia are “unverified and epistemologically unreliable”, the report says.
