LogFAQs > #971859174

Psythik posted...

That's why I don't understand how this is legal. Nobody is going after said "service". They've been around for over a decade now.

funkyfritter posted...

it's probably not legal, but operates in enough of a grey area that taking them to court would not be a simple endeavor.

adjl posted...

If they're small, taking them to court over the slice they take out of streaming services' revenue isn't worth the hassle.

Given what's happening to streaming as a whole these days (excessive fragmentation, fee increases, inconsistent libraries, ads...), I expect them to increase in popularity over the next couple years while streaming services lose subscribers. That will probably catalyze aggressive takedown efforts, similar to what happened to Napster when iTunes entered the market and Napster constituted a clear threat to them. That will generally be a matter of missing the point (that is, that streaming services are losing subscribers because their quality of service is dropping and this less-than-legal alternative can do the job so much better), but such is the nature of anti-piracy efforts.