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excitement to watch new content. By following their logic, people who walk through stores picking up and walking out with goods without paying is good for product producers and stores because it is turning inventory. Retail shrinkage (a nice name for theft) costs consumer goods manufacturers/stores an average of 1.4 – 2 percent of sales annually. It costs workers in the form of lower wages, fewer benefits, fewer available jobs. It costs consumers in the form of higher prices. The same is true of the content creation, production, delivery industry. Folks who espouse that piracy is good for the industry decided on their solution first and then did the research that supported their conclusion. But that’s just our opinion! Narrowing the cinematic window won’t eliminate piracy but it will lengthen the time for high-quality copies to become available around the globe. Studios and streaming services (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney, Paramount, Universal, Apple TV, WBD, the thousands of small/large creative houses and hundreds of streamers around the globe) have to do more to protect their entertainment assets. There are solutions that go after pirates like the legal action IBCAP (International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy) took