750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Oct 9, 2008 6:57 PM EDT If you pay any attention to the endless debates over intellectual property policy in the United States, you'll hear two numbers invoked over and over again, like the stuttering chorus of some Philip Glass opera: 750,000 and $200 to $250 billion. The first is the number of U.S. jobs supposedly lost to... [read full story]