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Moejoe · 03-31-2009, 10:52 AM

Okay, so I did a little more digging. The torrent site I was on is a multi-tracker site, meaning it polls downloads from several varied sources to give the results. That means the figures are quite representative as a whole. So then I checked the impact of piracy with a percentage.

Dan Brown's Davinci Code novel sold anywhere (depending on quoted figures) from 30-40 million. The downloads of the book were in the 29,000 area. I took the lowest figure of 30 million for this calculation.

So (drum roll) the impact of file-sharing on Dan Brown is roughly: 0.09758333333333333% lost or never would have bought sales.

EDIT: for the downloads of the book to be even statistically interesting they would have to be in the 300,000 to 400,000 range.

03-31-2009, 10:52 AM	#105
Moejoe Banned Posts: 5,100 Karma: 72193 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South of the Border Device: Coffin	Okay, so I did a little more digging. The torrent site I was on is a multi-tracker site, meaning it polls downloads from several varied sources to give the results. That means the figures are quite representative as a whole. So then I checked the impact of piracy with a percentage. Dan Brown's Davinci Code novel sold anywhere (depending on quoted figures) from 30-40 million. The downloads of the book were in the 29,000 area. I took the lowest figure of 30 million for this calculation. So (drum roll) the impact of file-sharing on Dan Brown is roughly: 0.09758333333333333% lost or never would have bought sales. EDIT: for the downloads of the book to be even statistically interesting they would have to be in the 300,000 to 400,000 range. Last edited by Moejoe; 03-31-2009 at 11:02 AM.