Legality of free online streaming sites

Hey, not sure if this is the right board to pace this into, but I'll give it a shot anyway. You know those free online streaming sites? What is the legality behind it? I mean, of course it's illegal but somehow these sites stay up for years before they get taken down. Are there countries where the legalities of it are more lenient? If one were to want create such a site, what would be some necessities to ensure it stays up for as long as possible?

>>42997 They are hosted in countries that don't give a soykaf and most of them don't host any content they are just a gui for links. You can try to open one them with your browser dev tools but you will be met with their anti debug tool (google a way to bypass it). What you will find is they are using sites like https://vidsrc.to/ to get the videos and https://www.themoviedb.org/ to get the metadata.

Thanks for the answer, that's actually quite helpful! Would you know of a way to find out which countries don't really bother with stuff like that? I mean, sure there is DMCA, but I guess there would be something different for Europe? If there were a DMCA strike to come one's way, could a person simply ignore it if the country does not belong to U.S?

Like >>42998 said, most of those sites outsource the actual hosting of the video files to dedicated file hosts which can pretend like they don't know about the files being hosted there until somebody reports it, when they can just reupload it again. Neither the streaming site nor the video hosting site are directly respoinsible Of course some jurisdictions know this trick and try to hold those hosting services and streaming sites resposinble regardless, but it's not as easy for them due to it being so decentralized.

>>42997 they get taken off search if there is a DMCA complaint, however unless if they get their domain or hosting taken away by the corpos, they can survive for a bit