Posted by Ken Maltby on 05/06/07 15:33

"nappy" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> "Kimba W. Lion" <kimbawlion> wrote in message
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>> "Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote:
>>
>>>around one million pirated optical discs with a street value of
>>>around US$2.86 million.
>>
>> Apparently, this movie pirating thing isn't the big moneymaker we've been
>> led to believe it is. Selling them for $2.86 each ain't exactly big
>> bucks.
>
> Kimba.. maybe you ought to check the average daily wage for Chinese
> workers. TO most, that is a lot of money. Believe it or not.

Plus, it probably costs them less than $0.25 to make a DVD.

They pay nothing for the material they are copying.

They pay nothing to support a production studio.

They pay nothing for copy protection royalties, or any other
technology they use.

They collect no sales taxes, and probably pay few taxes for
their hidden production facility.

They pay for no advertising.

That one shipment caught by the dogs may not be all their
production.

They can make plenty more.

With almost all of that $2.86 as profit they are making
more profit than a legal sale of a $15.00 DVD

Luck;
Ken

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