The headline they want you to read: “zomg these master criminals were causing billions in damages!!!1!1”
The headline everyone else reads: “lmao piracy run by a couple random schmucks has an infinitely better service AND content selection than any corporate streaming service”
Alternative headline: “study finds that people don’t like subscriptions that tell them to eat shit”
piracy run by a couple random schmucks has an infinitely better service AND content selection than the top 4 corporate streaming services combined"
FTFY 😁
Mentally translating this as: Competition from the free market unfairly prosecuted by a tyrannical state that enforces the monopoly of “intellectual property” of corporations
This is insane. This does not warrant a 48 year sentence; some actual rapists and murderers get off for less time. The “justice” system is a joke and doesn’t prosecute criminals. It prosecutes those that threaten the system.
Sentencing hasn’t happened yet; 48 years is the maximum, according to the article.
Whatever the sentence is will be ridiculous since it’s just copyright infringement, but hopefully the sentencing goes to a small fraction of the maximum.
Thanks for the clarification. Hope they get the greasiest lawyer they can find outta this.
To be fair, Netflix and the others all had to pay licensing fees and whatnot. I think governments should simply ban exclusivity deals so that competition can exist.
Wow, it’s really hard to imagine the deep societal harm done by these five people. And you do have to imagine it because it doesn’t exist.
Entertainment to uplift the spirit? For free? Think of the children!
(Apparently not free at all, $10/month.)
It’s not exactly difficult to have more content than those services when they keep fucking around with exclusivity bullshit.
Right? This dude was probably just hosting all of the content that the platforms removed over the years lol
The group used “sophisticated computer scripts” and software to scour piracy services
that’s way too fancy talk for these programs LOL
Lol I think most self hosted media centres over a year old have more content that all those services combined
IDK, I’ve been at it for a month and have accumulated around 3.6tb, I’m pretty sure Netflix alone has way more than 43.2tb in their entire library (>17000 titles globally)…
Guess we’d need to qualify it with more in our personal libraries that we actually want to watch. Lol
Oh yeah I obviously don’t have all the crap filler shit they bloat the numbers with.
To be fair, most of Netflix is crap that no one watches.
Free my boys they did nothing wrong. Also, I thought the US doesn’t go after you with copyright unless you profit from it.
Edit: my bad, they were charging for this. Yeah…
Jetflicks, which charged $9.99 per month for the streaming service, generated millions of dollars in subscription revenue and caused “substantial harm to television program copyright owners,” the Justice Department said Thursday.
Lmao must of us here do the same thing. It’s not hard. I don’t think I’ve written a script for this but it can’t be too difficult.
The group used “sophisticated computer scripts” and software to scour piracy services (including the Pirate Bay and Torrentz) for illegal copies of TV episodes, which they then downloaded and hosted on Jetflicks’ servers, according to federal prosecutors.
The average human considers the Pythagorean theorem “sophistication”. Let’s not take our education for granted.
Give me like $7,500 and I provide enough harddisks for 183,200 episodes. I’m not sure what to calculate for traffic, though.
And I mean it’s a bit unfortunate that you have to commit money laundering and/or tax fraud alongside this “business model”. It’s just not that easy to say: Hey, I would like to pay taxes on this pile of money and I don’t want to say where I got it from, it’s definitely mine, though.
Were they using cryptocurrency? Maybe that’s how they thought they could get away with it. The article doesn’t say
The article doesn’t talk much at all about all the interesting technical details.
The press release talks about trouble with payment providers… So I suppose they accepted credit card payment.
Maybe the court documents are publicly available if anyone is willing to dig them up in order to find out… I don’t think I’m that interested. If it’s a good story, maybe someone will do a documentery or podcast episode at some point. Would probably do for a “true crime” show.
Wow, that must have had like 12 shows.
My takeaway: jetflix developed a model that worked. Just need to replicate that many times.
Would probably work well for sharing with family /friends.
Would probably work well for sharing with family /friends.
So, Jellyfin ?
Getting it from my server securely to their TV is the issue.
I miss the old Netflix, where discs would come to my house.
Don’t worry, there are still some services out there that do this!
And Gamefly allows you to rent movies, too!
Those people won’t just stop we should stop them
I misread the title as “Fire men convicted of massive, illegal streaming service” and was wondering if they were broadcasting fires
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