>> The article is exaggerated FUD.
Most piracy analyses assume that ALL pirated software WOULD have been purchased if not pirated.
This is simply false. The reality is, nearly all pirates would have simply foregone having the software if it couldn’t be pirated. Practically no revenue loss at all.
Piracy is still wrong and harmful, but these sorts of analyses are self-serving nonsense.
Bingo, we have a winner. you are More Correct than most people could imagine. If it aint free I don’t want it.
This is more than that... this is an assumption that there is even that much piracy going on. iPhone piracy works only on jail-broken phones... and those are only 5% of iPhones. To reach such a number as $450 million lost revenue, better than 75% of all purchasable download apps in the wild would actually have to be pirated and therefore would have to be running on jail-broken phones. Absurd. For every app sold, according to these bozos, three were pirated. These numbers were either pulled out of their noses or made up on the spot.