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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by vonjuice on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:07AM (#39258498)
My pockets are absolutely overflowing with revenue big corpo would otherwise have gained, it's ruining my pants!

Do you know where I could stash all this revenue big corpo would otherwise have gained? Or perhaps I could give it to you? Would you be interested in giving me something in exchange for all this revenue big daddy corpo would otherwise have gained?

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by DarkUranium on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:16AM (#39274359)
Reminds me of the Napster case, where the damages were calculated as higher as the gross world product at the time because of the "1 pirated copy = 1 lost sale" philosophy.

Implying that music companies would have been richer than all the nations + other companies in the world combined, if it wasn't for music piracy. It's not hard to see how that's bull.

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