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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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[-] [email protected] 291 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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.

You're wrong, your presumption assume one single person to download a single file he/she never ear about.

What's most likely, people download ROMs for nostalgia, ie: something they, or their parents, bought them when they were children. So, if we assume someone download their "childhood library" which was already paid, of about ~30 cartridge (admitted the download is the right one, and didn't required multiple download attempt); in the view of the FBI, that single person "stole" 3180 USD he/she paid ~20 years ago.

You're not just supposed to lose the things you bought, you're supposed to be fined (for attempt to play the product you already paid) with price updated to current industry standard.

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