The main point is that most statistics on jobs or dollars lost to piracy are completely made up:
I still think media companies should instead focus on making it easy and cheap to get the media people want onto the devices people use. Apple’s iTunes comes close, but it’s still hard to use if your music player doesn’t support Apple’s proprietary music format. By hard, I mean that I can do it, but I have to change the default settings and provide instruction on how to make it all work for my wife and kids for each individual player.