Suggested respondent: Panigrahi, followed by an owner-side customer. This is a commercial verification question, not an assumption that platform traffic is economically worthless or valuable.
Ask: “For content comparable to ours, what proportion of your evidence represents authenticated paying buyers, technical requests, trials and blocked activity?”
A strong answer should cover: the metric denominator, observation dates, duplicates, failed requests, billable events and cash collected. Ask for a redacted example connecting usage to invoice to remittance, with consent from the owner. A refusal for confidentiality should be recorded as an evidence limit rather than proof of misconduct.
Follow-up: “What would make you advise this owner not to integrate?”
Approved expert quote: [Not yet collected.]