I misread the title as “Fire men convicted of massive, illegal streaming service” and was wondering if they were broadcasting fires
Five Guys have better service that is free than largest paid service providers
Five Guys have better service that is free
It wasn’t free — they were charging money for it:
Jetflicks, which charged $9.99 per month for the streaming service
Cheaper, not free.
At one point, Jetflicks claimed to host more than 183,200 TV episodes.
Look what they took from you!
I miss the old Netflix, where discs would come to my house.
I’ve read that some people are going back to simpler tech stacks, and it feels like they’re just leaving money on the table if that demographic continues to grow.
Who knows, though? Maybe somebody new will fill in that niche.
I wasn’t raised with cable so TV isn’t my thing, but I was fortunate enough to live by a $1 theatre and watch all kind of movies in a theatre, I’m just gonna go back to that. Once I find a dollar theatre.
Don’t worry, there are still some services out there that do this!
And Gamefly allows you to rent movies, too!
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.
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.
Those people won’t just stop we should stop them
Indeed. The federal agents have stepped way out of line with this one
Wow, that must have had like 12 shows.
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”
piracy run by a couple random schmucks has an infinitely better service AND content selection than the top 4 corporate streaming services combined"
FTFY 😁
Alternative headline: “study finds that people don’t like subscriptions that tell them to eat shit”
It’s not that hard to compete with the ever shrinking Netflix library
You should really be more specific. All of them have more content than netflix hulu vudu and prime video combined.
They wrote it in the article: jetflix It was even paid and people still used this instead of the legal services
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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.)
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.
The group used “sophisticated computer scripts” and software to scour piracy services
that’s way too fancy talk for these programs LOL
Sophisticated computer scripts
if (request) { Connection.Stream(video); }
