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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 298 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (16 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€“] molten@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Exactly. When I "used to" pirate games (dear me! I would never dare break those little laws now) it was originally because I was way too broke to pay for them. When I had more pay I later bought nearly everything I had pirated and actually played on gog or steam. Since then it's just easier to use steam or GOG than to pirate and scan and install and mess with my firewall and install the crack and diagnose wtf I messed up. Since then I only ever pirated games I'd never ever buy. If you count every game I pirated (sometimes up to three times based on if there were issues, virus scanner pings, lost the file and reinstalled on another drive, etc...) as a lost sale I've potentially caused up to 10k or more in losses over the hundreds of games I've illicitly downloaded. Most of which, again, I downloaded with a bank balance that hovered near 0$.

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