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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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[–] who@feddit.org 300 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 64 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Reminds me of the math used by cops when they seize drugs to come up with an absurd amount of money to make it look like they're having an impact on the never-ending war on drugs.

[–] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

So we've got a kilo of cocaine, but thats gonna be cut to 4 or 5 times its weight probably, so let's call that 5kg. Then lets assume each of those 1000 grams is gonna be broken down into 50 20mg single doses, and lets say those addicts are gonna pay 20 bucks for a single dose. Thats $1000 per gram, time 5kg, we've got ourselves a nice 5million dollar bust here. Call the papers and print it.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago

How data driven are cartels, anyway? Seems like they should be getting stats on loss rate to busts and calculating that in. They run as a business and want real numbers.

They're a group that builds their own autonomous submarines. They gotta be calculating this.

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