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>but AFAIK there is no standard alternative way to calculate those "losses" This isn't the problem at all. The problem is that they're calling them "losses",
by magduf 7y ago
>but AFAIK there is no standard alternative way to calculate those "losses"
This isn't the problem at all. The problem is that they're calling them "losses", when they aren't losses at all. "Lose" is a plain English word with a very specific meaning: it means you no longer have something that you used to have. These companies never, ever "lost" anything at all due to "piracy". You can't use the word to describe "something you don't have, and never had at all, but which you should have"; it doesn't work that way.
If they used a different term, such as "unrealized revenue", then we probably wouldn't be having this discussion.
- tomnipotent 7y ago> it means you no longer have something that you used to have No it doesn't. It means you lost out on potential revenues because someone decided not to pay for it. That's a loss. If people are consuming your content and not paying you for it, you're losing something in the transaction.
- ratacat 7y agoOr... Someone would have just watched something else that was free. It seems to me that actually they're getting free publicity
- tomnipotent 7y ago> It seems to me that actually they're getting free publicity This is ridiculous. There's a subreddit choosingbeggars that's FILLED with people asking for free art for "publicity". It's insulting to content creators to hear this silly shtick.