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Swedes undeterred by online piracy ban
Mattias Karen, Associated Press: Swedes Undeterred by Online Piracy Ban.
Unless Swedes have suddenly changed their habits, about one in 10 became a criminal on Friday when a ban on sharing copyrighted music and movies over the Internet took effect at midnight.Swedes are among the most prolific file-sharers in the world. Industry groups estimate that about 10 percent of Sweden's 9 million residents freely swap music, games and movies on their computers, making the Scandinavian country one of the world's biggest copyright violators. ...
All well and good and interesting, but then the reporter goes on:
Globally, the movie industry alone is estimated to be losing $3.5 billion to $5.4 billion a year to Internet piracy.
No, no, no!!!
As the MPAA's own website says, the $3 billion-plus in losses is due to hard-goods piracy: DVDs and video compact discs.
The MPAA makes no estimate of how much it may be losing because of Internet piracy. How many times do we have to repeat this before the news media gets it?
July 5, 2005 at 12:19 AM in Piracy | Permalink
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Quote: Due to the difficulty in calculating Internet piracy losses, these figures are NOT currently included in the overall loss estimates. However, it is safe to assume Internet losses cause untold additional damages to the industry.
What a clever use of the word "untold". Of course it's "untold". They don't specify anything. LOL They don't say how much, and declare they are untold damages, thus intimating it's a big number without stating any facts. Wonderful semantics! Sophistry at it's best.
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Posted by: D Cootey | Jul 5, 2005 3:08:03 AM
