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Piracy sends an even clearer message.
"Fuck you, I'm not playing your game"
Except though that they don't really have the data to see how many people are really doing that at a time.
If they did I swear I think they would raid homes over it until people were so scared they'd stop.
I pirate everything btw.
Edit: tell me again how they track and keep up with people who stream from services like real debrid who only reports rough user counts and not what those people stream. Private trackers would also like a word although they can be tracked but it is a lot more difficult than non private trackers.
Except that they do.
https://www.kearney.com/industry/media/article/video-content-piracy-using-the-power-of-data-and-analytics-to-capture-a-multibillion-dollar-opportunity
https://electroiq.com/stats/piracy-statistics/
https://corsearch.com/blogs/does-piracy-impact-sales-a-look-at-the-data
https://www.muso.com/blog/piracy-data-and-audience-demand-in-the-film-and-tv-industries
https://thehighcourt.co/piracy-statistics/
Except that they dont.
They can see how many downloads and seeds from torrents only but not from a single place and also not individual stream counts from services like real debrid and whatnot. Which a large number of pirates use.
Also almost veryone in USA uses a VPN to torrent unless they are just asking to get a letter sent and service disconnected.
So they can tell some of the people who accessed it but not how many people of that group would have been able to legally pay for the service anyway. (If I'm not mistaken a lot of those streaming services are US only and at least if they aren't they offer completely different libraries based off what country you're in)
Someone in Africa or Brazil who had no way to pay for it anyway are also included in those metrics making them kind of pointless if you're an american company selling american media to Americans only.
Although I'm sure they just measure it as "missed sales" anyway even though that isn't the truth. They don't offer their services to all 200+ countries and a lot of piracy isn't just US based.
Also stuff like streamio that uses Real Debrid doesn't contribute to those metrics. Real debrid downloaded it once and that will show up but then the tens of thousands of people who streamed it from their servers never get reported or documented in these metrics. That is jus one example of why these are not accurate and I say that if they really knew they would go after it even more.
That's not including the fact that when I download a game or movie I like I share that file on a USB drive with my friends who are either unable or unwilling to torrent it themselves and that also never gets reported in these statistics.
There is absolutely zero way they will ever have the data on all of it.
Also, I haven't looked onto it extensively but I believe a lot of private trackers are excluded from these data sets as well. I'm not 100% sure about that though.
I love how people down vote this when what I am saying is easily verified. Just look it up in your favorite search engine.