"reA $250 billion per year loss would be almost $800 for every man, woman, and child in America. And 750,000 jobs – that’s twice the number of those employed in the entire motion picture industry in 2010. The good news is that the numbers are wrong. In 2010, the Government Accountability Office released a report noting that these figures ‘cannot be substantiated or traced back to an underlying data source or methodology,’ which is polite government-speak for ‘these figures were made up out of thin air.’"

— The Freakonomics guys call bullshit on the MPAA’s piracy numbers (via maxistentialist)