'Free TV for Life': It's (Sort of) Legal and Sweeping the U.S.

The software is perfectly legal, and Corky Stanton, who runs the website out of his home in Bass Lake, California, is sure he's not breaking any laws. Stanton and entrepreneurs like him are Hollywood's latest challenge in the battle against piracy, which costs the entertainment industry billions of dollars a year in lost revenue. Some of the entertainment-search apps strip out commercials from TV shows and have slick Netflix-style interfaces that let you hunt for pirated content by genre, actor or title, according to people who've tested them. [Extracted from the article]