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It is estimated that piracy costs the entertainment and software industries tens of billions of dollars.
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The concept of pirating has knocked a few ‘linguistical’ screws loose in all impending DRM arguments IMO…….take for instance the 4-3v3r touted preposterous figure above [BS].

The music/software/movie/etc industries !MAY!-[emphasis] not make tens of billions of dollars, but I hardly believe that they “lose” that much. IME and ‘research’, most of the stuff downloaded or bought illegally is generally something a person wouldnt buy anyway, primarily bc of the cost. For instance, people don’t want to spend $80 for a software program, especially if they can download it for free or buy it off some random street vendor guy for 5 bucks.

When that happens, they [the RIAA/MPAA/software vendors/etc] don’t lose $80 because the person never would have bought the software/music/movie in the first place, instead they just didn’t make the $80.

Same thing with CD’s/DVD’s…………

Someone isn’t going to buy a certain CD for 13 bucks, when they can get it for free or for a few bucks. So the artist didn’t necessarily lose $13 because they were never going to make that $$$ in the first place.

So that ‘figure’ above is bloated and full of crap……..regardless of the fact that I do not condone TRUE copyright/patent violations.

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