TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoFive Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combinedvariety.comexternal-linkmessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1457arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54arrow-down3·5 months agoYou 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.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down2·edit-25 months agoIt 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.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·5 months agoYeah but megaupload was legit but was still shutdown despite being massive
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.
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.
Yeah but megaupload was legit but was still shutdown despite being massive