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The truly obsessive Star Wars fans won't pirate. They think Disney will blacklist them and they'll miss out on waving plastic light cones around at those freakish cult ceremonies. Paying out the ass for Star Wars shit is more like religious tithe to them.
Many truly obsessive Star Wars fans have been technically pirating for ages in order to have the fan-made 4K restorations of the original films Lucas and Disney refused to release in favor of the CGI-remixed versions.
Yes, but they are a minority - and they alone cannot prop up the franchise if the rest boycott Disney/ABC.
ETA: you don’t need 100% to boycott in order for a campaign to be successful - there just needs to be enough to sufficiently hurt their bottom line.