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1. Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jan-2022 11:42:23 UTC Tagomago

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   • tomasino

   @tomasino Remember that EU study: https://corsearch.com/does-piracy-impact-sales-a-look-at-the-data/

   • tomasino (tomasino@tilde.zone)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jan-2022 11:42:24 UTC tomasino

     Just saw a bullshit headline claiming Disney lost $600M on the Black Widow film due to piracy. The BS napkin math on this is that it was downloaded 20 million times. Then the article declared that each download is somehow a lost Disney+ subscription with $30.

     This is obviously ridiculous logic. There's no evidence that a pirated show would have been purchased if not downloaded, let alone that a platform subscription would have happened. Nor do we even know that 20 million downloads represents 20 million individuals.

     This isn't a matter of technical ignorance. These facts aren't hard to understand. They're intentionally misrepresented to benefit rich companies that want penalty payments in lawsuits. What utter hogwash.