An interesting article examining in detail the blatantly false numbers the copyright industry keeps using to push their agenda; it explains that the "effects of piracy within the United States are mainly redistributions within the economy for other purposes and that they should not be considered as a loss to the overall economy," and that the harm is rather in a loss of "allocative efficiency;" it also reiterates out how SOPA and the money wasted therein will likely have no effect.

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/...ustries-con-congress/Edit