I bought a new blu-ray movie DVD and sat through three long, boring unskippable anti-piracy notices at the start of the movie.<\/p>\n
Lets assume every person who watches DVDs \/ Blurays puts up with a similar inconvenience approximately once a week on average<\/p>\n
Assume a total therefore of twenty seconds of time wasted per week, per viewer. 52 weeks a year is 17 minutes of wasted time per year, per consumer.<\/p>\n
Assume 200 million US consumers + 200 million more from Europe, Japan, Australia etc, as a conservative figure.<\/p>\n
That’s 56 million hours wasted per year by people watching this stuff. (6,392 man years)<\/p>\n
at an average<\/strong> wage of say $16 an hour (src: http:\/\/www.data360.org\/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=773)<\/p>\n Looked at another way, the lost time equates to (assuming average life expectancy of\u00a0 78.1 yearts according to google) the lives of 81 people.<\/p>\n I hate piracy, but I hate stupidity too. And unskippable piracy warnings are not only stupid, they are wasting the best part of a billion dollars a year.<\/p>\n Pass it on… :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I bought a new blu-ray movie DVD and sat through three long, boring unskippable anti-piracy notices at the start of the movie. Lets assume every person who watches DVDs \/ Blurays puts up with a similar inconvenience approximately once a week on average Assume a total therefore of twenty seconds of time wasted per week,<\/p>\nthat means pointless unskippable copyright notices cost the global economy $896,000,000 a year, enough to create maybe 18,000 decent paying full time jobs.<\/strong><\/h2>\n