Let me clarify what I'm getting at: These streaming sites are laden with ads, and some even have offer subscriptions, so there's a profit motivation for the pe

Let me clarify what I'm getting at: These streaming sites are laden with ads, and some even have offer subscriptions, so there's a profit motivation for the people that run them. I'm not talking about the people who upload torrents (there's not much in a profit motive there, since that stuff is hard to monetize), or people who crack software. That sort of stuff. Interviews digging into their motivations have been going around for a long time now. If you're hacking on running a pirate streaming site to make money off it, if you have skills enough to stay ahead of the people constantly trying to take your content down, at some point you're going to realize you can make a lot more money using those skills working for a legit company. My take on the profit motive for malware authors is not the same; a malware dev can make a lot of money if the group manages to hit the right victims. The ones who are state sponsored probably make decent money too.