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Gregory King told authorities he made a living selling pirated music for seven years -- but deputies say his reign ended Saturday at the center of a Lake Worth flea market. According to an Institute for Policy Innovation study, music piracy worldwide causes more than $12.5 billion dollars in losses to the U.S. economy, more than 70,000 lost jobs and $2 billion in lost wages among American workers.

White House IP czar Victoria Espinel cites a 2007 IPI study stating that intellectual property theft costs the U.S. about $58 billion per year. The Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Galloway says the figure comes from a source that would astonish Hollywood liberals.

Citing IPI's 2007 copyright piracy study, reporter Nathan Taft of NextGen Journal evaluates recent policy approaches to help fight online piracy. The methods by which piracy should be regulated is a clear point of contention, he writes.

Many people consider music piracy to be nothing but downloading music "for free." What they may not full understand that is that downloading a song or album off the Web without paying for it is a crime, reports the Detroit Free Press.

The Ft. Worth Star Telegram's Dianna Hunt cites IPI's study regarding the economic impact of counterfeit goods on the local economy.