The thing about companies that complain about piracy is that they do the math based on lost sales. So as long as piracy exists, they can always do their math and show how much sales they've lost. If the amount is significant, they can still complain.
The unfortunate thing is that they can't prove that if piracy was impossible, that the resulting sales numbers would instantaneously match their forecasted numbers. You'd never for example see poor people in a poor country be willing to cough up money for Windows and Office licenses if piracy for Microsoft products suddenly stopped. Likewise for entertainment products like movies. And yet, those companies continue to wave around their calculations as gospel truth.
The unfortunate thing is that they can't prove that if piracy was impossible, that the resulting sales numbers would instantaneously match their forecasted numbers. You'd never for example see poor people in a poor country be willing to cough up money for Windows and Office licenses if piracy for Microsoft products suddenly stopped. Likewise for entertainment products like movies. And yet, those companies continue to wave around their calculations as gospel truth.