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> Digital video piracy is costing the US economy between $29.2 and $71 billion each year. ... > This number surely affects the US economy in terms of lost mov
by leetrout 3y ago
> Digital video piracy is costing the US economy between $29.2 and $71 billion each year.
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> This number surely affects the US economy in terms of lost movie industry revenue as well as lost jobs and tax revenue.
So no facts to back this up that I saw. Some amount of piracy is uncountable because the user never would have bought the media anyway.
- Semaphor 3y ago> So no facts to back this up MAFIAA and friends were never big on facts.
- Shaanie 3y agoI suspect it's most content and not just some. I may prefer to watch a specific movie, like Heat (1995), but if it's not available on the streaming services I currently pay for I'm more likely to watch something else rather than pay 15 bucks (or whatever) for it.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoYeah, these numbers are always very dishonest. There's no accounting for * People who were never planning to buy, including people who just plain could not afford to buy if they wanted to. * People who bought after pirating * People who pirated something that was not available anywhere to purchase in their region It's basically impossible to account for all of these different reasons, but arguably none of those were really ever going to contribute the money. Besides, people have no moral duty to support the US economy.
- Freak_NL 3y ago* People who just hoard media. There are many people who will download anything within a given set of parameters and only ever watch a fraction of it. It's a form of local digital library building.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoYeah, that's true too. Basically mass data archiving, which is actually a super valuable service to society if we want to have any hope of keeping less popular digital information alive for the future.
- bearjaws 3y agoThis has to be the classic <numberOfPiratedStreams> * <priceWeSellToMovieTheatre> = crazy number. Instead of <numberOfPiratedStreams> * <constToStream> = millions of dollars. Like how the RIAA sued Limewire for 72 trillion dollars. https://www.businessinsider.com/riaa-claims-limewire-owes-trillions-2012-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/riaa-claims-limewire-owes-tr...
- elashri 3y agoI laughed so much reading the article > Compare that to the wealth of the entire planet at $60 trillion.
- neilsimp1 3y agoI cannot agree with your point more. I pirate a decent amount of media. If piracy was not an option, I would simply live without the TV/Movies I download.
- irisgrunn 3y agoDon't forget that this study exists: https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_s...