Kissanime.ru was a free anime watching site for almost anyone, ans allowed users to access anime easily, not only anime but other animated movies and shows, but recently was shutdown due to copyright issues. People think that piracy affect sales in a bad way But it turned out that the study found that piracy had no impact on sales — at least in some cases. The suppression story broke, and it made for a nice new cycle narrative. ... “The results do not show *robust statistical evidence *of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements.

A study commissioned by European Commission has found out that piracy has no real impact on sales, but the study never saw the light of the day.

It is usually believed that piracy hurts the sale of copyrighted materials, which is not really the case. Over the years, there have been quite a large number of studies which has reached the same conclusion, and that was piracy has no heavy effect on sales. It sounds strange, but that is the truth. Thus I think this poll is not invallid or foolish but rather is justified