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.

Good old ”download equals a sale” rhetoric still doing a lot of work in these headlines. It’s been decades.