Is there something in the paper that you’re critiquing? This would be the equivalent of a quasi-random experiment where say Pirate Bay went down in <county x>

Is there something in the paper that you’re critiquing? This would be the equivalent of a quasi-random experiment where say Pirate Bay went down in <county x> and you observed a change of Y% in sales. (It’s not equivalent to just pulling a number out of the air for what you think the drop in sales is). As in, it’s not trying to infer causation from correlation, or substitute one thing for another, it’s using a natural/random discontinuity as a stand-in for an intervention.