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The $8 billion iPod | Rob Reid
A five-minute TED talk by Rob Reid, who introduces Copyright Math, applying entertainment-industry piracy loss claims to produce absurd totals such as an $8 billion iPod.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN links it in piracy and copyright-lawsuit threads as a funny short demonstration of how inflated industry damage figures are.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- copyright and piracy damages
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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