Or they get it just fine, since top lawyers of the kind hired by SoundCloud are as smart or even smarter than most programmers, and some even have technical training, but they have their reasons.

Like, they know that the fact that you can "get around" something doesn't matter as much as there being a slight inconvenience.

If, for example, at some point the official SoundCloud app allows direct download, people will use that, and not the "get around" method -- whereas if they allowed third party clients to have that feature it wouldn't be so clear what the users would choose.