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by ska 3010 days ago
I suspect they use the same logic that police media relations tend to use in reporting "street value", etc. Something like assume the highest possible revenue outcome, then round up. If it doesn't immediately fail the giggle test, that's your number.

We saw the same thing with music downloads, the assumption that every one represented the loss of a full priced album purchase or whatever.