Interestingly put @meno. I initially thought that they simply got bought by Lino since, it's obvious that @wa7 is part of their team currently but, your theory certainly puts me on thought.
Nevertheless, they played us and built their technology, and more importantly their userbase, with our resources, and are now gone.
That reminds me that Michael Jackson kind of stole the moon walk from some other people before him. To some extent, people take and steal from the people before them, even as King Solomon once said thousands of years ago that there is nothing new under the sun.
What you're talking about is originality, a platform "stealing" an idea from another platform; DLive taking the idea of live-streaming from Twitch. But, what is happening now is completely different.
Whatever gets the free market moving, right? That is interesting. Thanks. Upvoted.