I can tell you it didn't all go to the creator of the product, that's for sure. Most of it goes in to overhead. Maybe 20 cents went to the intellectual property holder...it's the industry as a whole that gets the rest of it.
According to TheTrueCosts that $250 billion is EVERYTHING that is pirated, to include imports found in the US. So if it is pirated overseas, and brought here, it goes on our "bill." Anyway, according to the site it says the losses are as follows:
Movies 3.5 Billion
Music 4.6
Software 12
Apparal 12
Meds 32
Car Parts 16
For a grand total of......
80 Billion.
WTF? Where is the other 120-170 Billion dollars? I can't think of much else to "pirate" even though I've never downloaded brake pads before...
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I can tell you it didn't all go to the creator of the product, that's for sure. Most of it goes in to overhead. Maybe 20 cents went to the intellectual property holder...it's the industry as a whole that gets the rest of it.
Booyaka!
According to TheTrueCosts that $250 billion is EVERYTHING that is pirated, to include imports found in the US. So if it is pirated overseas, and brought here, it goes on our "bill." Anyway, according to the site it says the losses are as follows:
Movies 3.5 Billion
Music 4.6
Software 12
Apparal 12
Meds 32
Car Parts 16
For a grand total of......
80 Billion.
WTF? Where is the other 120-170 Billion dollars? I can't think of much else to "pirate" even though I've never downloaded brake pads before...