Re:$250 Billion? With a B? (Score 1)

My queestion is, how do they calculate 250 B? I mean, if they are just measuring the number of downloads and multiplying it by the retail price of the media, then they aren't taking into account the fact that the person downloading it for free wouldn't necessarily buy the media if they didn't have the option of downloading it for free. Therefore, I don't think it is fair to call that "lost" revenue, because it wasn't potential revenue.