SMAIS exaggerates effects of Icelandic piracy

Very interesting. It also exposes the general lies told by the Movie and Recording Industry to justify their actions online.

Sounds familiar. When sharereactor was shut down by the authorities in Switzerland, the anti-piracy organisation there leaked to the media a bunch of negative analysis data they did on the site and about its owner. An article appeared in a newspaper saying that the owner was raking in 76,000 Euros per month, 2,000 from donations alone. The reportedly told the police a figure more like 15,000. Obviously they knew they were lying at some point, but continued to spread false figures. I guess the MPA and its branches don't have much of a problem with making up numbers arbitrarily.

What might be interesting to note is that that each year, on average, every Icelander rents 10 VHS or DVD titles from videorentals and goes 5 times to the cinema (Statistics Iceland). That's double the cinema attendance of other Nordic countries and three times the rentals.