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Downloading and watching is a crime. One night be able to say they didn’t know what they were downloading but likely the file name and site or torrent is a good clue that’s bullshit.
Your probably discussing chance of getting caught. You likely will see a DMCA complaint or something like that to your ISP at worse for downloading but enough of these might get your service terminated (some ISP don’t care.)
Sharing the files and usually sharing a lot of files publicly or semi publicly will get you more attention and that will get the media companies more likely to take you down as a distributor.
VPN and smart browsing habits will reduce a lot of this risk though.
Think of downloading is one star in GTA. They will chase you if they are you. Uploading is two stars when they start shooting at you. Profiting of it is like three stars and that’s when they get more aggressive. You can get busted at one star but it’s just very unlikely.
IT’s also lacking viewers. Odyssee is a great idea, but I converted all my videos over and get 0 views. Odysee’s biggest problem is they need to advertise for viewers, but anyone who goes “Watch me on Odysee” sounds like an idiot, or a scammer (I know Upper Echelon pushed it for a while, but he pushed all sorts of stillborn projects, so it just was yet another one…
It basising a lot of it’s reward structure on a crypto currency doesn’t help much either.
If you’re demanding I watch ads, it’s not “free”. you’re demanding my time and probably attention.
I really think we need to stop with this idea that “Something is free” because no money is exchanged. Some stuff ARE free, there are repos on git, where you can download software, there are websites that ask for nothing. However Gmail, Youtube, reddit, and the rest are not “Free” just because they aren’t directly asking for money.
It costs penny on the dollar to archive the final code base of these games.
Saying it’s fine is like saying a artist shouldn’t keep copies of their work on the wall because there’s no money it’s it.
Companies should have pride in their accomplishments. These companies only care about profitability, and care nothing about what they have done in the past unless it makes them more money. It’s why modern gaming feels soulless.