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Re: How to interpret MPAA / RIAA "piracy" numbers Ah, but it's even better (worse?) than that.
(The following figures come from »arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20···761.html )
Apparently, of that $6.1 billion, $2.4 billion is "hard piracy" (guy on the corner selling copied DVDs for $5 each). Then there's $1.4 billion that the MPAA "loses" to illegal copying (making a backup copy of a legitimate DVD you bought). This leaves $2.3 billion lost via Internet downloading.
Now, plug $2.3 billion into your steps instead of $6.1 billion and we come up with $27.5 million.
The other interesting thing that this shows is that 60% of their "losses to piracy" figures are pretty much just made up numbers to evoke sympathy for the industry. Sympathy in government circles, of course, not with consumers. They don't care about us at all. Our wallets, yes. Us, no.
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