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Ikr? It's like they're counting every act of digital piracy ever to be their lost profits when that's obviously not the case.
It's not "like", that has been the argument with these piracy cases for ages. If I pirate 100 movies, it obviously means that if I couldn't have I would have gone to the shop to buy each and every one of them. It's even worse for anyone caught distributing the downloads, where a site host can be hit with this logic for every user download ever.
Apparently these days they are claiming that movie and TV piracy costs the US film industry $29-71 billion a year and the US GDP a cool $115 billion in total
Because, you know, we have all that money just floating in our pockets now thanks to piracy.
Video game piracy has led to more purchases from me, because I'll download a game to try on a whim that I wouldn't have purchased, find out that's it really good and buy it
It has been shown that pirates spend more on media than anyone else, so companies are effectively attacking their best customers because they are short sighted idiots
Same, I blame games not having a trial version anymore. Streams free weekends are actually great for this. I've bought a couple free weekend games I've played in the past.
Best way to get me to not pirate your game and buy it is to have a decent demo available. Against the Storm is a bizarre pitch (Rouge-lite City builder), but they had a good demo that allows unlimited play on the standard biome with a level cap. Was incredibly easy to try it and play enough to decide I like it.
~~US GDP is not 115 billion. My tiny European country's GDP is like 700 billion. The US's must be well into the trillions~~
~~Edit:~~
~~It's 28 trillion. That's 28'000 billions.~~
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States
He said piracy costs the us GDP 115billion. Not that it is 115billion
Right, I misread