“The problem with sites that extract text from movies and other content is that they reduce people’s desire to pay a fair price for content, which can lead to people not seeing the official full-length movies, causing great damage to rights holders,” the anti-piracy group explains.

There it is, the piracy myth. If your movie is good, reading things about your movie will impulse people to buy a ticket to go see your movie. If reading about your film makes people not want to go to your film, maybe your film wasn’t any good to begin with. Most publishers ignore that the people who are satisfied with consuming pirated media exclusively weren’t going to buy their product anyway, piracy or not. This is also a company so paranoid of piracy that you can’t buy the movie anywhere currently. The international release was limited, it was delayed for months, it still isn’t widely available in western streaming services. The only easily accessible version is a pirated version. No wonder this bootleg novelization was selling. If people can’t access your product, it doesn’t matter whether it’s being pirated or not, because they can’t buy it directly from you. You aren’t losing money because you aren’t selling anyways.