From David Legard of the IDG News Service:<p>The U.S. economy lost $9.2 billion through copyright breaches in foreign countries in 2002, the industry body International Intellectual Property Alliance reported Thursday.<p>No, it didn't. It seems possible, even logical, that $9.2 billion worth of software, music and the like was illegally copied in 2002. It is also logical that many of the recipients of that illegal copying would not have purchased the software or music or whatever had they not received it gratis or nearly so. The economy cannot lose what it would never have gained.<p>And from a different story by Joe McDonald of The Associated Press:<p>The International Intellectual Property Alliance, a trade group, estimates China's piracy of entertainment and computer goods cost businesses US$979 million in lost sales in 2000.<p>Seems wrong to me. Anyone have a different take?
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