{"id":194246,"date":"2008-10-13T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/13\/big-surprise-ip-monopolists-pull-numbers-out-of-their-tuchus\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T14:33:00","slug":"big-surprise-ip-monopolists-pull-numbers-out-of-their-tuchus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/13\/big-surprise-ip-monopolists-pull-numbers-out-of-their-tuchus\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Surprise, IP Monopolists Pull Numbers out of their Tuchus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the frequent refrains about the &#8220;costs&#8221; of &#8220;piracy&#8221; is, &#8220;750,000 and $200 to $250 billion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well Aris Technica took a look at this number to figure out where it came from, and the answer is: <span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/articles\/culture\/dodgy-digits-behind-the-war-on-piracy.ars\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Nowhere<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The Commerce department did a study recently, and said, &#8220;$60 billion,&#8221; but the authors admit that this is a guess, based from data <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">collected from self selected respondents who are overhwelmingly tied into IP intensive business models<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>All they could show on their own was $23 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, $23 billion ain&#8217;t chicken feed&#8230;.That&#8217;s what 50 days in Iraq?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the frequent refrains about the &#8220;costs&#8221; of &#8220;piracy&#8221; is, &#8220;750,000 and $200 to $250 billion&#8221;. Well Aris Technica took a look at this number to figure out where it came from, and the answer is: Nowhere. The Commerce department did a study recently, and said, &#8220;$60 billion,&#8221; but the authors admit that this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1134,970,1109,1191,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-corruption","category-ip","category-patent","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}