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BSA's Latest Piracy Claims 'Shockingly Misleading,' Says Geist
An anonymous reader writes "This week the Business Software Alliance published a new study
which purports to estimate the economic gain from a ten percent reduction in piracy of business software. For Canada, the BSA claims that the reduction would create over 6,000 new jobs and generate billions in GDP and tax revenue. But Michael Geist says the BSA claims are based on nothing more than the economic gains from a ten percent increase in proprietary software spending. The BSA now admits its estimate is based on the presumption that every dollar 'saved' by using unlicensed software would now be spent on proprietary software."
Glyn Moody pointed out more flaws in the BSA's report.
I ran the numbers and if the members of the BSA gave a Canadian 10 billion dollars:
- Canada's GDP would go up by billions of dollars
- Nearly 5 billion dollars would go to taxes
- The lucky guy or gal could spend 3 billion dollars to hire 6,000 people at an average of $50,000 a year for 10 years to build a monument of themselves.
- The lucky person would have 2 billion dollars left to spend
The choice is clear.
So what you're saying is that virtual dollars are constantly being created and destroyed in Economic Space? Forming the basis for a theory of Economic Vacuum Energy? Which itself is a part of Quantum Economics?
Generally, the illicit nature of counterfeiting and piracy makes estimating the economic impact of IP infringements extremely difficult, so assumptions must be used to offset the lack of data.
Well in this case it would be "making an ass of u and mptions"
Au contraire!
It sounds like you digging a hole like that created more work for the city who had to fill it in.
So if everybody did that, lots of jobs would have to be created to fill them in.
another corporation caught lying ...oh my goodness.
let the bailouts begin anew.
Seriously, does anyone still believe anything self serving corporations say anymore?
It ought to be a reality show theme.
So, every dollar spent on software is a dollar that could have otherwise been spent on life saving surgeries for children?!?!?! If I understand the BSA's logic correctly, that would mean that the BSA is murdering thousands of children a year!!!! Won't someone think of the children????
"Opposite side of the coin is that if someone comes along and starts using your hole, you'd reasonably expect to get paid for it, just like anyone else workin' the street."
Wait ... so software piracy is like prositution? I'm confused.
Up Next: BSA claims that Open Source is the same as piracy. All software must be licensed, and those licenses must be purchased from member companies of the BSA.
From the same mindset that brought you "Skipping commercials is theft"
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Or Dire Straits.
Where is this place? I want to hang out there.
I could make a nice soup out of yesterday's chicken carcass. You can ditch the 'study' but leave me the carcass.
Is 1563649 a prime number?
If you say different, you have declared Uwe Bolle's movies to have a non-negative value, which is plainly false.
For every 10% increase in tornadoes over 6,000 new jobs would be created and billions in GDP and tax revenue would be generated.
Feel free to mod me down, just know that unlike some Anonymous Cowards I'm not afraid to express my views as myself.