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by mike_d 1385 days ago
It is like renting a storefront in a mall and selling goods stolen from other shops in the mall. What the storefront is doing is illegal, and offering them free rent hurts the other legitimate shop owners in the mall.

To extend the analogy, the mall also refuses to tell the other store owners who owns the shop so they can take legal action. (Cloudflare quite famously will just forward your complaints about hosting illegal services to the service themselves)