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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
Sorry, but the numbers in that post for "losses" are not "mind blowing", they are simply made up.
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The numbers are extrapolated but definitely not made up, in fact they're pretty conservative. Much of the content available on PlanetSuzy costs more than $19 retail. However the mean average for content we have sampled from the site is on the high side of $19.
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It's absurd to say that 1/3 (of what? how many people? whatever number it's drastically less than tubes) would have paid $19 for something they downloaded, rather than finding something else for free. How do you know this? You don't, of course. It's just as likely that nobody would have otherwise paid, therefore the losses are zero.
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Research by IDC, Melbourne University Law Dept, RMIT University Media Department and a number of other institutions have all come to conclusions about the percentage of people who would buy content if no piracy source for that content was available.
Many use the 33% model. The basis of the model is that one third of people acquiring content would buy it if no piracy option was available to obtain the content.
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Trying to claim that almost $6 BILLION is lost from adult in the space of a year because of one site is absolute nonsense. Same kind of ridiculous over-inflation of "losses" the movie and music industries do, which is why many people don't take them seriously.
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I didn't mention adult, the figure is overall, PlanetSuzy has links to downloads of mainstream content including music, tv shows, movies and software.