One Step Ahead

I posted an entry last week warning about the inflated figures quoted by movie producers, record companies and software companies about how much money they're losing from illegal copies. Essentially, the figures are inflated because these companies usually claim that every pirated copy is a "lost sale", when in fact that totally distorts the picture. It's highly unlikely that everybody who made an illegal copy would have gone out and bought the real version instead.

Now the New York Times reports that a representative of the Business Software Alliance, which recently made such an inflated claim, admits that their figures are probably inflated by 10 times!

I told you so.