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Companies don't actually care very much about if people steal content or not. That's not the metric by which they are judged by their shareholders.

They care about if they generate profit or not. Minimising piracy is one part of that, but it's not worth destroying the rest of your business over chasing marginal returns on the anti-piracy front.




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