As a person who lives at Ukraine I can confirm - US does not lose anything because of pirates here. Majority of the people here is so poor so even buying $3 CD is expensive for them. So even If here would not be pirates, US music firms woulnd not sell more CDs here than they are doing now.
Now a bit of math, just to compare: middle level salary at US(monthly), let it be around $3.000. one CD costs $15 - $20, so it turns into 150-200 CD per month that you can buy. Now Ukrainian case - $60/month and $3 per CD (prirate) = 20 CD per month. Hope now it's clear why it's completely impossible to make "copyright'd" business here - will be almost no sales/profits.
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As a person who lives at Ukraine I can confirm - US does not lose anything because of pirates here. Majority of the people here is so poor so even buying $3 CD is expensive for them. So even If here would not be pirates, US music firms woulnd not sell more CDs here than they are doing now.
Now a bit of math, just to compare: middle level salary at US(monthly), let it be around $3.000. one CD costs $15 - $20, so it turns into 150-200 CD per month that you can buy. Now Ukrainian case - $60/month and $3 per CD (prirate) = 20 CD per month. Hope now it's clear why it's completely impossible to make "copyright'd" business here - will be almost no sales/profits.