One of the biggest things I continue to see pop up over and over again is the fact that the production team should not have mad it available for download before releasing it.
I have to disagree. Even if it was released on disk, hell, more than likely if it was released on disk, there would be even more people to pirate it, simply because they want it downloaded and not to have to go out an buy a copy, but I digress.
On one of the sites I am looking at, the documentary (Same one I downloaded) has 300 seeders and 20 leechers. in total 320 people downloaded the torrent file. I've also read on how many people later went on to pay for it because of the torrent. I can't say anything about youtube, and I'm one of the ones that haven't paid for it yet (I swear I will as soon as I can) but that fraction is small. And considering the amount of bronies that paid, what is the ratio to profit/loss?
Not a mathematician by any means, so yeah my match could be way off, I simply say this to bring up another question:
Has torrents caused more damage...or youtube?