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Ars Examines Outlandish "Lost To Piracy" Claims and Figures

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 9, 2008 @06:03AM 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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Re:bad analogy by lymond01 · 2008-10-09 07:00 · Score: 5, Interesting

And me without mod points. Even RIAA execs have said they lost an entire generation of buyers because they didn't have a pay-to-download strategy soon enough. If they'd had *something* worthwhile, kids (now young adults) wouldn't think the best way to get your music is through BitTorrent.