Studies Keep Showing That the Best Way to Stop Piracy Is to Offer Cheaper, Better Alternatives

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3kg7pv/studies-keep-showing-that-the-best-way-to-stop-piracy-is-to-offer-cheaper-better-alternatives?utm_source=reddit.com
Yes, the "please don't make me steal" mantra is proven again.

Does Piracy Create Online Word-of-Mouth? An Empirical Analysis in Movie Industry

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3308905
We've seen this before: piracy creates buzz which results in more sales.

Pirates Are Valuable Customers, Not The Enemy

https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-are-valuable-customers-not-the-enemy-180606/
More confirmation on what we've known all along: those that pirate media are actually the best customers.

FCC asks Amazon and eBay to stop selling fake pay TV boxes

https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/29/fcc-asks-amazon-and-ebay-to-stop-selling-fake-pay-tv-boxes/
Should be interesting since one of the best IPTV devices is the Amazon FireStick.

What the Commission found out about copyright infringement but ‘forgot’ to tell us

https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/secret-copyright-infringement-study/
EU report says piracy has almost no effect on copyright sales.