The 50 million dollar kid. (Piracy)

[Del]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7122133/

Nothing like our youth of today, hard at work ripping and burning, ripping and burning ...

I wonder how many hard-drives this kid had? His room must look like a computer warehouse.

Del Esau
www.esprawl.com

 

[Zappo]

I don't want to get political, but I ... XXXX. Meanwhile, I'd like to point filesharers to XXXXX, It's currently pretty useless, but it should get better as the network grows.

Uh, yeah. Please don't get political and definitely don't try to use this message board as a place to help people fileshare. Thanks. --Dinkeldog/EN World Moderator

 

[Turanil]

The FBI found more than $50 million in music and movies on Dhaliwal's computer.

Exaggeration and drama. I have no respect for those who cry that a so ridiculous amount of money have been stolen from them by a teenager and his computer.

 

[der_kluge]

$50 million sounds like a bit of a stretch to me. But then I don't know how much an unreleased movie sells for. I think to purchase a brand new movie for release in a theater can be several thousand dollars. And CDs sell for around $18 nowadays. If you just count the number of CDs, that's 2,777,777 CDs.

Let's say, liberally the movies and everything he had are very expensive. We'll cut that down to 2 million CDs, one song from each CD. That's still 2 million mp3 files.

At roughly 1 megabyte each, that's 2,000,000mb. That's 2 terabytes of information. Or, 2,000 gigabytes.

Conceivable, I suppose. But really freaking expensive.

 

[francisca]

Conceivable, I suppose. But really freaking expensive.

Perhaps that is why he was selling the illegal copies. Kinda like feeding an addiction.

 

[reveal]

I doubt that $50 million was broken down by CD/movie ticket price. More than likely they figured some number like "This CD made $3 million dollars last year" and used that figure. Usually the RIAA likes to pad their numbers.

 

[Goobermunch]

The article notes that the RIAA estimates that they lose $300,000,000 (300 million dollars) each year to piracy. If that's true, then this kid was responsible for 1/6 of the piracy that year. I think their numbers are flat out bogus.

--G

 

[francisca]

The article notes that the RIAA estimates that they lose $300,000,000 (300 million dollars) each year to piracy. If that's true, then this kid was responsible for 1/6 of the piracy that year. I think their numbers are flat out bogus.

--G

woo-hoo! 5 teenagers left and the RIAA can disband.

 

[reveal]

The article notes that the RIAA estimates that they lose $300,000,000 (300 million dollars) each year to piracy. If that's true, then this kid was responsible for 1/6 of the piracy that year. I think their numbers are flat out bogus.

--G

Not necessarily. He had a bunch of movies, which falls under the realm of the MPAA, not the RIAA. Not that I agree with the number either.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

The article notes that the RIAA estimates that they lose $300,000,000 (300 million dollars) each year to piracy. If that's true, then this kid was responsible for 1/6 of the piracy that year. I think their numbers are flat out bogus.

--G

Naw, their numbers are probably right but they fail to tell you about the $900 million they lose each year to producing really crappy music.