@goosey yep! it wraps

@Gargron That may he for more political reasons in the case of Kaspersky. Limiting access to the fediverse by blocking major instances seems in-line with Russian internet policing of late.

@rysiek really at this point i'm curious who is actually arguing for it? Aren't we at a point by now where people can just... you know... NOT change their clocks?

@groovestomp or those exposed to the downloaded show who enjoyed it enough to purchase it later. There's so many facets here, but Disney is a fat corp and capitalism gives it a singular concept of "good": money. Any action that precipitates more of it is good. Lying about their loses is good.

*lights the house on fire*

Just saw a bullshit headline claiming Disney lost $600M on the Black Widow film due to piracy. The BS napkin math on this is that it was downloaded 20 million times. Then the article declared that each download is somehow a lost Disney+ subscription with $30.

This is obviously ridiculous logic. There's no evidence that a pirated show would have been purchased if not downloaded, let alone that a platform subscription would have happened. Nor do we even know that 20 million downloads represents 20 million individuals.

This isn't a matter of technical ignorance. These facts aren't hard to understand. They're intentionally misrepresented to benefit rich companies that want penalty payments in lawsuits. What utter hogwash.