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Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined (variety.com)
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[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is despicable. What specific service was this? So I know how to avoid it if it should resurface.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Not only does it say that in the first paragraph, it says it here

Five men were convicted for their part in operating Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal streaming services in the U.S., officials said.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why in the world would you do this in the US?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I mean we're dumb kids until they raid us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

There are resellers in the US who will set you up with the infrastructure to do it yourself. You don't need much and it's less expensive than you'd think, almost turnkey.

Demand is more than high enough in poor areas too, they probably made a really good return before it shut down.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

they probably made a really good return before it shut down.

Part of the sentence was to forfeit $1million in profits, I'd say they did pretty well for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I'm pretty sure the similar exists in other places too. You could host it in AWS in China or Bahrain and save yourself a bunch of risk.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My use of the word despicable instead of disgusting probably threw you off

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-disgusting-where

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just didn’t think the meme fit when it already said where

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I see. Sorry for the offence.