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You think they care about things like facts, or logic? No. This is, and always has been about control.
Even the business side of things know piracy doesn't actually hurt business, it helps it. They've conducted studies on this since 2004. They found that the vast majority of pirates are actually the biggest spenders. They found more often than not a pirate will download a movie, or an album or a game, or whatever. Then within a month buy that same thing they just pirated.
Thats the reason you used to see these record labels try to stop piracy back in the days of kazaa and napster, and limewire. There used to be lawsuits where they'd sue some household for 20 million dollars. Knowing they don't have it. Well what ended up happening is they ended up suing this elderly man who had no idea what limewire was. He didn't know how to use a computer. And the only one who used the computer was the 8 year old boy, who now had to live with his grandpa, because both his parents were killed by a drunk driver. Now this record label was trying to put his grandfather 20 million in debt. For someone who had no idea who the black eyed peas. When they kept asking him about it, he asked why they kept asking him about soup if this was about music theft.
As the case went on, it was revealed that between his parents, and other family members, he had a cd collection, including the albums accused of stealing, worth over $5,000 worth of cds.
The whole thing turned the public against record labels, and painted them as the bad guys for trying to ruin peoples lives over music. To this day I haven't heard of another time they tried that tactic.
And the republicans know this.
You have to remember one thing. The cruelty is the point. It doesn't need to make sense. It just needs to punish their enemies. And at times even punish their own base. I saw a story last night where a guy who voted for trump was complaining that insulin used to be $6, and now it's $80 under trumps new plan. And he said "I didn't think it would happen to ME!"
And thats where we are right now. Just leaving the fuck around stage. Now entering the find out portion of our journey.