Faking It:
In this piece on new measures being taken by film studios to counter film-piracy, an MPAA spokesman states:
“It’s estimated we lose between $3bn (£1.8bn) and $4bn (£2.4bn) a year to this problem despite strong anti-piracy actions by the movie industry.”
Not so fast bub! You didn’t lose three to four billion USD. No one came to your office and emptied out the safe. What you are actually referring to is that the value of pirated materials may amount to that sum. Whether the majority of persons who obtained those works would actually have purchased them, if they had not received the bootlegged versions, is another question altogether. I wasn’t paying for every one of your products before I could download/rip them, what makes you think I would be now.
