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FBI says it's now seized "multiple" ROM piracy sites, claims downloads resulted in $170m losses in just three months (www.eurogamer.net)
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[โ€“] who@feddit.org 278 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

It also claimed these websites had seen cumulative downloads of 3.2m in just three months this year - from 28th February and 28th May - resulting "in an estimated loss of $170m".

In other words:

  • They assumed that every download was by someone who would otherwise have paid over 53 USD for it, which by itself is an absurd delusion.
  • They described imaginary money that they never had in the first place as "losses", which is a plain lie. You can't lose something that you never had.

Given that both these blatant falsehoods match the propaganda that big media parasite corporations started pushing a few decades ago, it seems pretty clear who the taxpayer-funded FBI is working for.

[โ€“] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago

there is a reason humble bundle's pay what you want model worked, lol. I bet if humble bundle allows company to get data back for pricing analysis, it would greatly help the indies.

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