EU Report concludes that there’s no evidence piracy affects sales

Gamesindustry.biz has published a summary of “Estimating displacement rates of copyrighted content in the EU”, a statistical analysis into the affects of piracy on digital entertainment products. Shockingly the report concludes that “in general, the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements,” but adds the caveat “that does not necessarily mean that piracy has no effect but only that the statistical analysis does not prove with sufficient reliability that there is an effect.” Read a summary on GamesIndustry.biz or read the full report here.