Originally Posted by TheDoc

Are you getting your stats from the mpaa? Hundreds of thousands of jobs haven't been lost due to piracy, piracy has allowed MILLIONS of people to actually be employed.

If it's software, software companies don't get hurt from piracy, it grows them. Unless the software is trash, support is trash, or some other trash factor. Adobe and MS are easily the most pirated software online, and they aren't having any problems 'due' to piracy, actually it's the other way around. They use it for market research, feedback, and social chatter to 'improve' the software to the people that will always pay.

Billions 'worth' of this stuff may have been stole, fair use or not.. but this 'stolen' material helped create the largest movie releases ever in history, continually setting records. Same with music, concerts, unique song sales, etc.. the largest concerts ever in history, more stars than ever before. Just because people don't buy DVD's doesn't mean piracy is the reason.