the distortion of "there is potential profit we did not earn" as "there is money we lost" is fascinating and disgusting to me. "megamediaconglomerate lost $1,000,000,000 to piracy this year" is a flat out lie. it is not true. they did not have a billion dollars, that they now do not have. they felt entitled to one billion dollars, that they did not have, and still do not have. it's an infuriating perversion of the truth

Games Workshop tried to argue, to a court, in front of like, actual adults, that any time someone bought something that wasn't one of their products, that was a stolen sale for them.

They didn't win that court case.