The internet is designed to be inherently free and unrestricted. For the internet to work, everyone has to agree that their computers will pass data another computer asks it to send to another computer.
Because the internet works this way, it requires great organization and effort to block a website. In comparison, it is easy to circumvent these blockages, because the internet design is in favor of freedom.
It’s like trying to chase a squirrel, it’s just too fast to catch. It can go faster and change direction faster than you. It has a big advantage.
They usually do get shutdown. But it’s hard to sue if they’re based in a different country and if it’s hard to figure out who is running the website. The best they can do is hit them with a DMCA notice, but even then it really only applies to America. There are other country equivalents but as you can probably already see, this means a long legal process in each country, especially when a new website just pops up again.
Many of them are based in other countries where the laws about pirating media are different. A lot of the larger corporations have a harder time suing those streaming sites, as international law suits are complicated, and in many cases there’s not much that can be done if the country at question goes “That’s not illegal here, so you can’t sue them.”
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