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> This number surely affects the US economy in terms of lost movie industry revenue as well as lost jobs and tax revenue.
So no facts to back this up that I saw. Some amount of piracy is uncountable because the user never would have bought the media anyway.
* People who were never planning to buy, including people who just plain could not afford to buy if they wanted to. * People who bought after pirating * People who pirated something that was not available anywhere to purchase in their region
It's basically impossible to account for all of these different reasons, but arguably none of those were really ever going to contribute the money.
Besides, people have no moral duty to support the US economy.
There are many people who will download anything within a given set of parameters and only ever watch a fraction of it. It's a form of local digital library building.
Instead of <numberOfPiratedStreams> * <constToStream> = millions of dollars.
Like how the RIAA sued Limewire for 72 trillion dollars.
https://www.businessinsider.com/riaa-claims-limewire-owes-tr...
> Compare that to the wealth of the entire planet at $60 trillion.
I pirate a decent amount of media. If piracy was not an option, I would simply live without the TV/Movies I download.
MAFIAA and friends were never big on facts.