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Justin TV's legit content consists of video game streams and young girls life casting.

A vast majority is pirated material. If you look at entertainment, every single one is pirated on the first page(by viewers). They are responsive to takedowns but what then happens is a new NFL stream of the game pops up or goes private. They are legal in following takedown requests but it highlights that the DMCA is not very effective on live streaming sites.

Viewer numbers of their 5 biggest sections front page:

Sports-17k pirate

Entertainment-10k pirate

Gaming-2k legal

Producers-3k legal(overlaps with gaming)

Social-1k legal(barely...)




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