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So, using their extremely scientific method, did anyone else experience increased site traffic, or sales? I'm sure we can link other industries who deliver digital goods(software) so the closing of a digital locker site. Correlation === Causation; the pinnacle of statistical research!

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One of the authors of this 'paper' is Brett Danaher. He is a member of the SERCI (The Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues) which directly gets funding from SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores) which is a large collecting society (copyright collective) for songwriters, composers and music publishers in Spain.

So, what you're saying is, the next published paper will be on how Megauploads shutdown has increased the sales of music?

I wonder what dinner theatre ticket sales look like over this term, maybe digital piracy is killing the stage!?

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