Fines demanded by copyright industry
jeudi 8 mai 2014 à 14:00A study of unauthorized sharing computes by extrapolation that the fines demanded by the copyright industry total about 6 times the world's GDP.
It is not valid to extrapolate from Finland to the whole world. I expect that at least half the world's population has never received a copy of any song or movie over the internet. But even if we suppose that only 16% of the world's population behaves like Finns, the fines would still equal the world's GDP.
Please don't refer to unauthorized sharing as "piracy". That's a smear term promoted by the publishers that make these bogus claims about "losses". Every time you refer to sharing as "piracy", you give them very helpful support.
I reserve the term "pirate" to refer to someone that raids ships.
Using the word "steal" to refer to making a copy is likewise propaganda, as well as evidently false.