"Palladium" and TCPA

Ian Brown I.Brown at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:38:46 +0100


Nick Barron wrote:
> The numbers used by the software industry are based on a "formula"
> that is based on the number of PCs sold that assumes that x% will buy a
> certain type of product. Very scientific.... :)

The content industries are also prone to claiming that their losses from
piracy = their estimate of the number of pirated copies in existence * full
retail price.