In the tradition (cough) of the kibble- ... er, excuse me, I mean kibi-, mibi- and gibi- prefixes foisted upon the computer industry by SI, I have today invented a new unit of data capacity, the chibibyte. The proper usage of this unit is to denominate the capacity of any physically small storage device possessing "cute" exterior design and exaggerated features...
Cracked does the (sardonically humorous) math on the RIAA vs. The Pirate Bay, discovering that if you believe the RIAA's math, The Pirate Bay "has stolen about 46 times more [US] dollars than actually exist on Earth".
Using the RIAA's numbers, my on-disk music catalog — ripped from legally purchased CDs, I will note — is worth somewhere around $3 billion. Damn, I'm rich!
The cartoon at the bottom of the page is worth clicking on and reading full-size, too, just as a reminder about the stealing-work-from-artists er, entertainment industry and its endless Chicken Little the-sky-is-falling claims. In the fantasy world of the RIAA and MPAA, there is no entertainment industry, because radio destroyed the record industry, TV killed cinema, home taping killed music, and VHS destroyed Hollywood.
Oh, wait ... in the real world, none of those things actually happened.
