{"id":7321,"date":"2012-05-04T16:42:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T08:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=7321"},"modified":"2014-11-10T09:49:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T01:49:29","slug":"friday-math-movie-the-8-billion-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-the-8-billion-ipod-7321","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: The $8 billion iPod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video expounds the concept of Copyright Math (TM), which questions the way content markets, and the copyright surrounding them, are heading.<\/p>\n<p>The TED speaker is Rob Reid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GZadCj8O1-0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the video, he discusses statements like the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Motion Picture Association revealed that our economy loses fifty eight billion dollars a year to copyright theft.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Where does the number come from? What are the implications?<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to question why it is that revenues from other piracy-affected media are actually up (where it would be expected that they should be down as well).<\/p>\n<p>The video is a good demonstration of how statistics can be presented without it being crashingly boring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-the-8-billion-ipod-7321#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-the-8-billion-ipod-7321\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2012\/05\/8billion-ipod.jpg\" alt=\"8 billion dollar iPod\" title=\"8 billion dollar iPod\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRob Reid gets us to think about how silly the music and movie industries have been regarding copyright. He explains Copyright Math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}