Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

The Motion Picture Association of America has been claiming that college students account for 44% of illegal film downloading. It turns out their numbers were bogus.

This puts a new spin on Andrew Keen's belly-aching that "traditional media" has to operate at a different standard. What's the difference between the MPAA cooking the books in order to pressure universities to hand over student data and bloggers publishing shoddy information?