Five men were convicted for their part in operating Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal streaming services in the U.S., officials said.
  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The only thing I’m pisseed about is the fact that I was unaware of its existence. Fuck the system

    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      You might be overestimating how much content that was. Streaming services try to maintain an illusion of neverending content but last I saw except for prime, the amount of content they offer has been trending down.

      Those numbers are fairly accessible for an average person with 3 or 4 large hard drives.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
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      5 months ago

      You can always start creating your own personal media server, using apps such as Plex or Jellyfin, and qBittorrent, SABnzbd, etc.

      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I’ve been trying to do just that and it’s slow going with qB, if one was looking to avoid dens of sins where you might find a usenet key, where should I stay away from?

  • kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren’t bound to license agreements, turns out it’s actually very easy to have a “massive” content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.

    • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I mean, distributing it isn’t a small feat. Plus you need to manage subscriptions, billings, CMS, a front end to navigate the content, etc.

      That’s no small amount of work, even if they used out of the box solutions for many layers.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    You gotta be stupid as shit to run something like this from the US and keep a financial tail of credit card payments to you.

    You also gotta be stupid as shit to actually pay 10 bux for this.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      It ran functionally uncontested for ten years. And it would hardly have been the first underground streaming service to pivot legit and cash out.

      Napster was sold for $85M back in 2002. Justin.tv rebranded as Twitch in 2011. Hell, AWS has it’s share of pirate hosted files.

    • anlumo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      They didn’t need the army of lawyers to get license deals, so that’s not a fair comparison.

      • FreudianCafe@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Its almost like its unecessary shit made up in order to keep profits away from working people artificially

        • WarlordSdocy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Yeah its almost like if we didn’t keep extending copyright protections a bunch of stuff would be in the public domain and any streaming service could offer it without having to deal with licensing.

      • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Does Netflix make shows? Or does it slam its name onto filmmakers it pays to make content? If so, one of those things simply requires throwing cash at people, which I think is a skill that most people can learn.

          • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            5 months ago

            They had to operate under the radar to avoid the law, so you know the answer to your question

            • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              5 months ago

              So Netflix actually pays for shows to get made, so when everyone pays for Netflix, it lets everyone enjoy them. Pirate sites only extract value from the hard work of the producers, without paying them.

              • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                5 months ago

                producers don’t make the content, they speak to the right people in their exclusive circles to finance it, put their name on it, and then pay the directors and actors a tiny fraction of what it earned

                • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  5 months ago

                  Okay, now tell me how pirate sites contribute to creation of said content