Hum... It's about VPN and TOR, not piracy, so no it's:
Movie Industry: Those criminals are breaking the Law and paying us to watch our content in ways that we really do not want them to!
Movie Industry: Those criminals are breaking the Law and paying us to watch our content in ways that we really do not want them to!
That's why US box office has always been the only metric that "Hollywood" cares about.
Much like the music industry, the need for the Hollywood-machine, which is effectively a bank that gives loans to make movies - just as record labels would give musicians a loan against future earnings to make an album.
The barrier to enter the world of video content creation has led to more independent films and the platform to restrict revenue from studio-funded productions are evaporating because they were so late and backwards in how they approached streaming.