Interesting case, with a lot of grey areas. I'd say there definitely are some differences between p2p (i.e. torrenting) downloading and streaming, where in p2p

Interesting case, with a lot of grey areas. I'd say there definitely are some differences between p2p (i.e. torrenting) downloading and streaming, where in p2p you are also actively distributing the illegal content, in contrast to streaming where you are only a consumer. There's also the fact that the user has no real way of knowing if the content they're are watching is legal or not (most display ads before, like youtube), heck netflix could stream pirated content and no regular user would really know (not saying they do ofc). Furthermore, in the case of streaming a clear target is the site that provides the stream, which is a lot easier to target than whatever user ends up watching it.