Trying to beat/get ahead of regulation is a fairly significant aspect of many businesses. So many startups exist that either outright break laws (Uber, Airbnb)

Trying to beat/get ahead of regulation is a fairly significant aspect of many businesses. So many startups exist that either outright break laws (Uber, Airbnb) or try to find gray areas that are difficult to enforce from a regulatory standpoint. We don't like to think of businesses as behaving this way, and certainly many don't, but this is feature of capitalism, not a bug.