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  1. Re:Might help take fraud out of the system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Proposed Regulations Would Allow the Majority of US Homes To Be Bought and Sold Without Being Appraised by a Human (wsj.com)

    It just means that fraud would be at a higher level with the lack of oversight and controls on the systems (including a lack of audit trail for the valuations). Property is often used for money laundry and this will only make it worse. The US has the largest black market economy (according to havocscope), so it makes sense that regulations would be loosened further to facilitate more profit as the economy has trouble expanding in legitimate ways.

  2. Re:Only $2800? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on FBI Warns of Email Death Threats Demanding Bitcoin (abc7.com)

    Based on https://www.havocscope.com/black-market-prices/contract-killing/ the typical price in the USA is a few hundred to $25000, so the price appears to be in the right range.

  3. Re:Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole! by mdielmann · · Score: 1 · on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer

    Funny, when I look at this page what I see is that places with a high standard of living, i.e., those that can more easily afford luxuries, have lower piracy rates. Then there is the increasing prevalence of online streaming sites. Perhaps there are multiple causes of varying degrees of significance, but the laws haven't changed much in the last decade or so while the piracy rates have decreased.

  4. Re:scapegoat by schon · · Score: 4, Informative · on MPAA Touts Record Year For Hollywood

    I don't think that anyone ever claimed that movie piracy was set effect box office takings You think wrong.

    They've been crying for years that camcorded copies are reducing box-office take.

    Seriously, if you're gonna post complete and utter bullshit, you should make sure that it's not to an audience that knows it's complete and utter bullshit.
  5. Re:Irony? by Bob-taro · · Score: 1 · on Is Copy Protection Needed or Futile?

    There's a price point below which CDs would no longer be economically feasible to copy, and I reckon that's about £4.

    I think it would be lower, or maybe even zero. If you're going to copy music, why buy even a £4 cd when you can rip mp3's off of a friend's cd and load them to a player. Now it's MORE convenient than the cd and I paid nothing.

    And with your book example, sure it doesn't make economic sense to "xerox" a whole book instead of buying it, but book piracy does occur, because the per book cost of printing 1000s of books is very low.

  6. Re:$38 billion? by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 1 · on So You've Lost a $38 Billion File

    File it right next to the $18 billion (or whatever this week'd ass-originated number is) in "losses" that the RIAA/MPAA attribute to piracy.

    Oh, and the $60 billion lost to "web video piracy" as per
    http://www.havocscope.com/Counterfeit/webvideos.ht m

  7. Re:Counting oranges alongside apples? by dogeatfly · · Score: 1 · on Tainted "Piracy" Statistics

    But they do have a separate list of Counterfeit and Pirated Products. http://www.havocscope.com/Counterfeit/cgproductran k.htm From what I'm reading, it seems as if the main list that everyone is looking is simply the main list of all "Products" that they cover. They do have a separate list for piracy.