Awesome video, I appreciate you posting it.
I vaguely remember reading something where someone tried to figure out where one of MPAA/RIAA numbers came from and showing that it first appeared in the 80s … does anyone else remember reading this?
EDIT: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/19/where-the-funny-piracy-numbers.html links to http://www.cato.org/blog/how-copyright-industries-con-congress which says:
The $200–250 billion number had originated in a 1991 sidebar in Forbes, but it was not a measurement of the cost of “piracy” to the U.S. economy. It was an unsourced estimate of the total size of the global market in counterfeit goods. Beyond the obvious fact that these numbers are decades old, counterfeiting of physical goods imported in bulk and sold by domestic retail distributors is, rather obviously, a totally different phenomenon with different policy implications from the problem of illicit individual consumer downloads of movies, music, and software. The 750,000 jobs number had originated in a 1986 speech (yes, 1986) by the secretary of commerce estimating that counterfeiting could cost the United States “anywhere from 130,000 to 750,000” jobs. Nobody in the Commerce Department was able to identify where those figures had come from.
