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Then we just fall back to the issue of them not being able to identify installs, reinstalls, bad actors spoofing the source etc..
If they could track installs properly they would have solved piracy already
Well they've mainly said (recently) that they'll count new device installs, but not reinstallations on the same device. Which i believe. It's the whole, exemptions of charity sales and pirate copies is where they're spouting bullshit, or is PR/ higher ups making quick premises to placate without the engineers saying that that's possible, but now they've got to find a way. Which I don't think they will without heavily bloating the runtime into super shitty DRM realms