I know that these sites eventually get banned and shut down so it’s not that there’s a legal loophole but why does it take so long? There can be sites up that clearly illegally steams shows or live sports that are up for months or even years at a time. How do they manage to beat these billion dollar industries and stay up?
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Well first they can hop into legal greyzones and say “nah we don’t do illegal things, we’re just a platform, our users upload stuff and we aren’t responsible. Sure we will delete anything you complain about (after 3 months)”
Then they are often in foreign countries. It’s hard to shut a server down if the local police doesn’t cooperate.
And you can force ISPs to block the domain. But thats easy to circumvent for users (by using an alternate DNS server) and also for the website (by just getting a new similar domain) so why even bother with this?
Also you have to abide laws. You can’t just shut down websites for alleged copyright infringements. The authorities and copyright holders have to go through the slow legal system, and after a few years they get to shut down the site, wich will be replaced within weeks.
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