For years, we‘ve highlighted stories about how the claims of „losses“ from the entertainment industry due to infringement are completely fictitious. In the past, we‘ve seen Julian Sanchez go on a hunt to find the origin of some of the numbers being thrown around, and come up with evidence that they‘re based on nothing. For example, claims of $200 billion in losses due to counterfeiting… came from a 1993 Forbes article that just makes that claim with no citation and no backing info. But it became gospel among those arguing there was as problem.