re: #202 Gus

The problem with PACs isn’t Netflix. Obviously. Isolating them in this useless matter about freaking movies, which is largely a Western luxury, doesn’t garner much sympathy in me and is way down on my priority scale. There is a noticeable loss in revenue through pirating. Apple App store lost 450 million from my quick 30 second search.

Apple claims $11 Billion per year lost to software piracy. That’s roughly one full quarter of total revenues from all sources (software, hardware, music, etc.) for them.

To get there they make assumptions of how many copies of everything is out there, they use full (zero discount, highest point of sale) prices, and they assume every copy would have been purchased if unable to be pirated. Break any of those three elements and the losses get hammered.