We're all rich! Or so says the RIAA, according to Cracked.

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The continuing operation of The Pirate Bay is chiefly a triumph for enemies of the RIAA, which, by our last count, is everyone who isn't the RIAA.

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.