{"id":1894,"date":"2011-12-04T13:48:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T18:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2011-12-04T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T18:48:36","slug":"swiss-government-study-downloading-leads-to-sales-so-were-keeping-it-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1894","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Government study: downloading leads to sales, so we&#8217;re keeping it legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Swiss government commissioned a study on the impact of copyright-infringing downloading. The independent study concluded that downloaders use the money they spend to buy more legitimate entertainment products.<\/p>\n<p>So they&#8217;ve concluded to maintain Switzerland&#8217;s extant copyright law, which makes downloading for personal use legal.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a rare victory for evidence-based policy in a world dominated by shrill assertions of lost jobs and revenue, backed by funny-number &#8220;statistics&#8221; from industry-commissioned researchers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/12\/03\/swiss-govt-study-downloadin.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/12\/03\/swiss-govt-study-downloadin.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Swiss government commissioned a study on the impact of copyright-infringing downloading. The independent study concluded that downloaders use the money they spend to buy more legitimate entertainment products. So they&#8217;ve concluded to maintain Switzerland&#8217;s extant copyright law, which makes downloading for personal use legal. It&#8217;s a rare victory for evidence-based policy in a world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}