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    EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales

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    Steve Dent
    Steve Dent
    09.22.2017

    In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU. However, it never ended up showing it to the public except for one cherry-picked section. That's possibly because the study concluded that there was no evidence that piracy affects copyrighted sales, and in the case of video games, might actually help them.