Library Genesis worked pretty great and unmolested until news came out about Meta using it, at which point a bunch of the main sites disappeared off the net. So not only do these companies take ALL the pirated material, their act of doing so even borks the pirates, ruining the fun of piracy for everyone else.

NVIDIA are "legitimate", so anything they do is fine, while AA are "illegitimate", so it's not.

Short-term thinking, they don't care about where the data comes from but how easy is to get it. Its probably decided at project-manager level.