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According to entertainment industry figures, there is 7 million people in the UK who download unauthorised files, and this is costing the UK economy £12 billion per year.
If you divide 12 billion by 7 million that would give you the average loss caused by each one of those downloaders. The average UK salary is £25,000. Housing and food expenses would account for about 40% of that, vehicle or public transport costs another 10% or so.
But one last question: When 7 million families (say 21 million people in total) are denied access to the internet, what happens when this missing £12 billion per year that those people are responsible for doesn't appear in the economy? What happens to all the money that the innocent 14 million people were previously spending on online entertainment products?
That's still a massive loss of income for the entertainment industry, even if you ignore the fact that people who download unauthorised copies are their biggest paying customers.
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