Movie and Record Industry Piracy Figures Incendiary, But Not Fact.

I caught this little item from the Washinton Post today quoting losses from online file sharing.

“The intellectual property industry and law enforcement officials estimate U.S. companies lose as much as $250 billion per year to Internet pirates, who swap digital copies of ‘The DaVinci Code,’ Chamillionaire’s new album and the latest Grand Theft Auto video game for free.”

$250 billion per year is a big number. It is also a fictional one..

Last year, the total worldwide box office revenues for the movie industry were $23 billion, of which the US generated 40% of that amount. Revenues were slightly down from the previous year, which is understandable since the movie industry had been setting box office records an unprecedented dozen or so years in a row. The record industry last year generated a total of $33.6 billion worldwide, down 2% from the previous year. That’s a total of $56.6 billion.

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