Liars. It doesn’t cost industry anywhere near what they claim.
Online pirates will not buy the products they are pirating at any price if they can’t find a free download. Industry is assuming they could get full price from these “potential customers.” That’s total and complete B.S.
The industry has fallen for the classic blunder of assuming their “entertainment” content is worth spit.
“It doesn’t cost industry anywhere near what they claim.”
Hollywood is good a fudging ledgers to show that “hit movies” didn’t really make any money. Then you find out a few years later that that movie that bombed at the box office is a major cult classic once it went to DVD. Their numbers don’t add-up.