Thread: the cost of piracy is vastly overrated
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Old 01-28-2012, 02:18 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by RainingLemur View Post
I keep seeing the numbers, and I can't help but wonder how they come up with them. I would love to see the think-tank get-togethers where they actually come up with these figures.

I imagine it's like the witch trial scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

"If each download could possibly result in a $24 'loss,' and we saw that Pirate Bay had 3,452,000 downloads... How much money did we potentially lose?"

"A DUCK!"
Who cares how much money is actually lost? People should just stop taking what doesn't belong to them.
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