Tainted ‘Piracy’ Statistics

The music, movie and software cartels claim piracy is a number one problem not only for themselves, but for the world as a whole and so successful are their continuing dis- and misinformation propaganda campaigns that they’ve been able to dragoon entire governments and police forces into acting as industry enforcers. But far from being at the top of the pile, movie and music piracy rank 16th and 20th, respectively, on a global index of illicit markets. Software piracy ranks 7th. And even those positions are subject to considerable doubt