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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 297 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (15 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 days 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.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Don't know how accurate it is, but I've heard of even CSAM being inflated this way in police busts, where if there's a video that's X seconds long and has a framerate of Y frames per second, it will be described as X * Y "images" (so a 10-second 60 fps video is treated like it's the same thing as 600 photos) instead of plainly describing a video as being a video.

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