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>claimed piracy was costing Australian content industries $900 million a year and 8000 jobs. Is it just me or does even this clearly inflated figure seem like
by scythe 15y ago
>claimed piracy was costing Australian content industries $900 million a year and 8000 jobs.
Is it just me or does even this clearly inflated figure seem like pocket change? The economy of Australia is some $900 billion a year and counting. The costs of enforcing such legislation and the impact on people's freedom and privacy is surely not worth a mere 0.1% of the overall economy even in the best case.
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/ http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/
- tobylane 15y agoYep. Lobbying is generally ridicolous, spend $10m to get the law changed to keep $100m of 'lost' sales, costing the country as a whole $1000m in limitations, which is also what the labels said they were losing to pirating. Made up numbers, but it is something close.