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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.

Losses from lost N64 cartridge sales?

So now the company will have ~100m extra revenue in the next 3 months? Right? Right?

Good old ”download equals a sale” rhetoric still doing a lot of work in these headlines. It’s been decades.

Once more for those in the back.

You.

Will.

Not.

Stop.

Piracy.

I have torrented Mario Kart World one thousand times since it launched and have thus cost Nintendo 70,000 dollars. If I can keep up this pace, Nintendo will be bankrupt within the next year or two.

Fuuuuuck Nintendo. No one hates their fans more than Nintendo.

They are bricking brand new consoles, locking their USB ports to approved hardware, charging for the tech demo that would customarily be free on an $800 device. And that's just this year.

The government fights this hard over labor's lost wages too, right?

So Nintendo is gonna become richer by that amount in just 3 months?

Focusing on the important issues...

I love how they always try to pull the same bull that if the only way to obtain something like a ROM was through legal means that these companies would suddenly see a surge of millions more in revenue.

It's just as absurd as the people who say that thoughts and prayers alone will eventually end all school shootings in America.

169,999,930. I was never gonna buy that zelda game anyways. So no money was lost.

These loss figures are always fun. Me pirating a game i would NEVER have played otherwise is not a 50€(with todays game prices, 80€) loss for the company. On the other hand there are games that i pirated first because i wasnt sure it would be worth it for me to buy it and then actually bought it when i decided it would be fun to play and wanted to support the company.

How much is that in increased sales due to piracy?

https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537

What losses? Why do these people assume that pirates were ever going to purchase the goods they pirated?

Hey FBI thanks for letting me know about nsw2u cc I had no idea this thing existed...but now I do, so thank you.

seriously though I use the megathread and it has quite literally everything. literally the only good thing to come from reddit.

Do they only target torrent sites or something? Because there's places that have been around for decades that are still up and fine.

Bummer, I used that site a lot back when there were actual Switch games I wanted to play. Guess I'll have to get Metroid Prime 4 elsewhere when the time comes!

the FBI acting like when you were home alone all day and you did jack shit, but your hear your mom pull in the driveway and remember the chores she asked you to do, so you set the trash can on fire to make it look like youre doing something

cc site still works. nsw2u 1 : 0 fbi

I am broke af I would never have bought the game if I didn't get it for free. So they lose nothing if it's from me. Same for TV series and movies.