According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), they are losing a million bajillion dollars every day from media piracy, and it is killing their industry.

If you've ever sent a friend a video clip of your favorite show only to discover that "this video has been taken down due to a claim by MegaMedia Corp.

It's a jolting figure: the US music industry is making less than half of what it made at its 1999 peak of $14.

  Anybody surprised.

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This is Doug (formerly "Ug"), the abandoned, two-year-old, half-blind Pointer cross dog who sat in a British animal shelter for months awaiting adoption before a cafe worker in South Yorkshire saw him on the shelter's website and fell in love.

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Here's a fun fact about media piracy: nobody knows how much it actually costs the entertainment industry. But we do know that the MPAA released a report rife with what they claim were mistakes, and that the claims of losses are rife with assumptions and inaccuracies.