Thank you for the context, that makes sense and helps explain how it's so popular.

> Isn't this true in movies and other areas too?

That's a good point, though now I wonder if there's something particular to the content being live vs. VOD. By the time a DMCA request or equivalent pulls through for live content it might be too late to prevent the primary "theft" of the stream's value, vs. a movie distributed by HBO that has a longer tail of interest.