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1 Month of Piracy Worth More Than France's GDP?
According to RIAA figures....
Boing Boing points to a blogger who multiplied the number of music downloads from ThePirateBay in a month by the $150,000 the RIAA asks for in statutory damages for each download. The total? $11,440,939,650,000. Far more than the net worth of Bill Gates, or France's GDP.

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World GWP

Out of curiosity, I decided to look up the World's GDP. I found out via the CIA World Fact Book that the Gross World Product (GWP) for 2005 was estimated at $59.59 trillion.

This means that the "RIAA Damages" for one month of piracy is 19% of the GWP. If each month is assumed to be relatively equal in music download activity, then a year's worth of piracy would total $137,291,275,800,000 or 230% of the GWP.

No wonder the RIAA keeps crying about those awful pirates.