
Timothy B. Lee has been explaining at Freedom to Tinker why journalistic skepticism is important when considering piracy statistics. It's worth reading in full:

I’ve been reading The Word of Mouth Manual: Vol 2 by Dave Balter of BzzAgent, which interested me because: 1) it is available free as a PDF although you can buy it for $45 through Amazon 2) he is one of the few people I know of who usefully differentiates betwe