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Ars Examines Outlandish "Lost To Piracy" Claims and Figures

Posted by timothy on from the there-were-more-doubloons-here-I-swear-to-you dept.

Nom du Keyboard writes "For years the figures of $200 billion and 750,000 jobs lost to intellectual property piracy have been bandied about, usually as a cudgel to demand ever more overbearing copyright laws with the intent of diminishing of both Fair Use and the Public Domain. Now ARS Technica takes a look into origin and validity these figures and finds far less than the proponents of them might wish."

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  1. Have you no shame? by Chibi+Merrow · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So you're admitting you're just a whiny, worthless, dreck of a human being with the ethical, moral, and mental development of a three year old who has learned the words "GIMME!" and "MINE!" and isn't scared to use them?

    --
    Maxim: People cannot follow directions.
    Increases in truth directly with the length of time spent explaining them
  2. Re:"Lost" to piracy by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'll be honest, you're an idiot if you think people are pirating Sex and the City or Good Charlotte as a form of "civil disobedience" and not because they just want shit for free. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

    YOU JUST WANT THINGS FOR FREE. WHY WON'T PIRATES ADMIT THAT? Geez.

    It's like you've spent so many years convincing yourself that you're not a pirate but an "internet rebel sticking it to the man" that you can't recognize obvious things anymore.

    --
    "Sufferin' succotash."
  3. Re:"Lost" to piracy - Major Fallacy Here! by kz45 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "If you read the newspaper (you know, all of them) you can run for Vice President [wikipedia.org]. Even better, if you can't read you can run for President [wikipedia.org]."

    and if you read socialist monthly, you can run as the first african american president.