HOW DOES PIRACY AFFECT THE MUSIC, FILM AND SOFTWARE INDUSTRIES?
Piracy costs billions of dollars every year, affecting the software industry the most. Piracy cost the software industry a staggering $34 billion US dollars in 2005. This is mostly due to the high prices of software at around a thousand dollars each program. So when somebody downloads it they lose a lot of money. In 2005 the music industry lost $4.2billion dollars due to piracy and the motion picture industry lost $6.1billion dollars. That adds up to a total $44.3 billion dollars lost to those three in 2005.
