I guess this was bound to happen. From a legal standpoint i'm unsure. It makes me think of how people use apps on Kodi such as Exodus to watch free movies. Kodi simply provides the open source media player. What people do with it is another matter. There has been a recent uproar over Kodi in the UK. But from what I have read it's been very hard to prosecute anyone. It did cause some companies in that area to shut down though.
There are so many ways for people to get free movies now. Hopefully we can make it as unprofitable as possible and they will move on.
The issue to me is - This not what steemit is about. Steemit has always been against plagiarism and the use of copyrighted material. Being decentralized it becomes a community issue to flag these into oblivion. So thanks for the great post.
i think on EU level recently they made some new rules/laws against those services such as Kodi. Even if it is difficult to fight them, in the past networks like Napster was taken down. Taking down a service may not be done through taking down the network itself, but with enough marketing power, the users may simply walk away and causes the service to stop because of the low use of it. When Hollywood wants, it can take down Steemit and Steem as a currency through such approach; In the USA a news network can make and break services, companies and individuals, as proven by past experiences and events.