Or the founders of Uber and Lyft?

Legal gray area. They could have waited years and years and tried to get laws passed to allow their business to function with a clean slate of legality, but bureaucrats would have never allowed it.

This is kind of an amusing point to consider since we were talking about Kim Dotcom's extradition just moments ago.

So is the point to try it if you've got Napster level success but not Megaupload level success?

And since there is no way to know which level of success you are going to achieve beforehand, the note of caution still makes sense I guess?

Kim Dotcom made the mistake of not knowing when to quit. Napster shut down when it got told to shut down. Megaupload hopped around hoping to outsmart the law after it was told to shut down, and the executive branch doesn't let that go.

He also tried his hand at politics with musk level finesse. That didn’t help