Apologies, It's from 2006 even. I'm clearly getting old.

The reason it can be used to debunk the 2017 study is because said study is working with an old idea that already existed in 2006.

Aaron Swartz posits that at the very least you should not discount the importance of the long tail.

> posits that at the very least you should not discount the importance of the long tail.

thats not a debunking