Comment on Are illegal streaming sites really getting shut down a lot lately or has it always been like this?
9point6@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
TBF those streaming sites are usually the lowest common denominator, run by people who are just trying to make as much ad money as they can before they get caught or shut down.
When one shuts down, another inevitably pops up—it’s been this way for a couple of decades. No site ever lasts longer than a couple of years tops, it’s just a way too obvious way of doing things to not get caught eventually
Generally it’s best to go with a download based approach anyway (or one of the streaming approaches that doesn’t involve a web browser), given the quantity of shitty ads and tracking they’ll have on them.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I wonder how profitable they actually are. The ad money must be reasonably good to justify the risk.
Though I suppose the risk is exactly why these sites are run from the countries they typically are…
slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
From memory they are run out of countries that have very relaxed copyright laws, I think Vietnam is the one in the news recently
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And they’re usually not run by US Citizens, so there’s not much that can be done in the way of actual punishment.