IFPI estimates that a third of all CDs purchased in 2005 were pirate – 1.2 billion pirate CDs in total. The global traffic of pirate CDs was worth US$4.5 billion in 2005 based on pirate prices.
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Press Release
Quote:Wow!!! That is some figures they go there.
IFPI estimates that a third of all CDs purchased in 2005 were pirate – 1.2 billion pirate CDs in total. The global traffic of pirate CDs was worth US$4.5 billion in 2005 based on pirate prices.
Hmmmm.
I must admit I find those neat round numbers suspicious.
......and if it's anything like what the cops do in the UK with drug seizures (where the claimed 'street value' of certain drugs is ridiculously higher than what it is.....er, so I'm told) then the value of those goods that's been quoted is going to be wildly inflated above the real "pirate prices".
I'm not going to condone an actual 'pirate industry' as seems to happen in certain countries (I don't want to be buying things like fake brake pads for my car or bike for instance) but equally I don't see why we need to be fed BS about what is going on either.
Thankfully (for once) they have so far managed here to refrain from linking this pirating to terrorism, child porno or individuals at home doing nothing more sinister than a little P2P.
What happens to all of the recovered discs? Do these get recycled?
Originally posted by Unfocused:They get recycled into coffee coasters :P
What happens to all of the recovered discs? Do these get recycled?