Comment on 'The Last of Us' Was the Most-Pirated Show of 2023

• Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  … No? Did you even read my comments?

  This actual data is not necessarily representative of the entire situation, just a specific demographic.

  Numbers are great, but they’re meaningless without context.

  My anecdotes are examples of why that may be, as looking at the same or similar problems from different perspectives can help you gain a better understanding.

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  • sab@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This actual data is not necessarily representative of the entire situation

    You keep saying that, but never back it up with any reason.

    Everyone here agrees the data is incomplete, but that it’s the best data we have. Only you keep implying that it’s incorrect because [ever less verifiable, unspecified reasons]. Holy hypocrisy, batman.

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    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have not said the data is incorrect, I have said it is only representative of one type of piracy, exactly as the authors of the linked article as well as the original source of the data have.

      I’ve simply made a point of highlighting this fact as the tiles don’t make it very obvious.

      Once again:

      It should be noted, as Torrent Freak does, these statistics only reflect a portion of any pirated content this year. The stats are specifically for single-episode torrents, rather than season-wide packages, and even more specifically they’re based on data from the torrenting platform BitTorrent. Just as television has grown and evolved across new formats in the last decade or so, so has piracy, with more and more people turning to sites hosting streams of pirated content, rather than “traditionally” pirating content through downloaded, local copies.

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