"authorities said DrinkOrDie cost the software industry $1 billion to $5 billion in lost sales each year. An industry trade group estimates that piracy costs software-makers $12 billion a year worldwide." this is a gross exageration.....based on the assumption that all these people who use pirated software would have otherwise purchased it.....that's simply not true....alot of people collect pirated software just to have it and never even use it...they certainly would have never spent hundreds of dollars to buy it...the "software-makers" are dreaming...LOL