Topic: COMPUTER - on August 24, 2007 at 11:30:00 AM CEST
A $13 billion fantasy: latest music piracy study overstates effect of P2P
A new study from the Institute for Policy Innovation takes a different approach to quantifying the cost of music piracy. Instead of just focusing on what the lost sales cost the record labels, the new study measures the impact of piracy on the US economy. The total price tag? A cool $12.5 billion in lost output, if you trust the study's numbers.
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