[BowBun]

> Google Play wasn’t telling you to jump on LimeWire to illegally download your music.

Of course not, but they had no moderation for a long time so that that's what people were using it for. At that scale it's not an oversight, it's a customer acquisition strategy.

Once they hit critical mass they killed the feature as one would expect before negotiating lucrative deals with distributors via Google Play Music and eventually Youtube Music.

I think the line is very blurry, the only difference is one side is doing it very quietly and strategically, while the other was blustering their way through.