Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

Proving Netflix should could be replaced outdone by five hard working people.

Things are easier if you can steal stuff. And operate on a small scale.

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

Or fund new content

Their scale was also an insignificant fraction of what Netflix has, making the point even more irrelevant.

The best figure I could find on Jetflicks user count was 37k, where as Netflix has 269 million users.

If we get rid of the licensing we get rid of the lawyers.

Precisely. So much added expense for zero, or rather negative, added value.

I think it’s more for major shareholders (which includes CEOs, of course)

Like Boeing's CEO making 300 million.... imagine 300 people who worked their ass off could make million. Or 1500 hard workers could be making 200k. But nah, let's just drag these huge bags of money into this one asshole's account. Oh there were a couple of crashes right? 👍 Our thoughts and prayers 🙏. But not our money wagons.

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.

Does Netflix? Or do they pay production companies for content?

I think of them when I dream about them facing a firing squad.

All of those things already exist. Typically it's just a Plex server running on a cloud service.

5 people could do it though.

Both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world's highest trafficked websites

Yeah, I got a 14tb drive back in February and it's 90 percent full already. My media collection will always grow to fill the space available.

Police don't even really have a duty to enforce the law, at least not in the USA:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

Nobody gives a shit, you're not doing enough to punish trump for his obvious, literally filmed and recorded crimes.

This is the equivalent of the cops celebrating after bearing peaceful college protesters while pissing their pants and freezing while the uvalde kids were slaughtered and psychologically tortured.

You're focusing on the non victory and ignoring the failures. Cowards.

Maybe even Jellyseerr

Oh I don't care that the IP owner don't get money.

IDK, I just don't like the ethics of pirating media for profit, the entire idea is that it should be accessible to everyone, not just those with money. Cover your operational cost? Sure....Making millions in subscriptions? That is an asshole move IMO. If you're paying, you might as well pay the people who are making the media in the first place instead of some rando that had nothing to do with it.

Throw this national menace into federal max security solitary confinement, next to Hannibal Lecter >:/

Are you playing directly on your server?

For the first one at least you could solve it by running JF with a Chromecast or similar device.
Feels cleaner than a wireless mouse in the living room too, IMO

JF won't boost volume past 100% like VLC.

For when you need to take it to 11

I don’t watch on my computer, that’s just where it’s hosted. I watch mostly on my AppleTV using Infuse (also great for other Apple products as well)

You can run your Jellyfin connection inside of Kodi which has a ton of configuration options like the volume control.

Use kodi for last mile?

VLC is great as a file playing app, terrible as a home server…

Can’t use the scroll wheel for volume. It’s a pain aiming for the volume from across the room on the couch.

apparently this is supposed to be coming in the 9.0 feature release. So soon™ I'd have to look to be sure, but apparently it's coming.

Volume is weird, i feel like i'd almost like either a "volume target" option, to match volume levels between content, or some sort of fixed audio boost level. Idk.

You might want to consider streaming it on your TV. Modern TVs should have a Plex app at the least. Or use a Chromecast or other setup. I watch on my couch with the TV remote. Its the same experience as watching Netflix.

What platform are you on that you need to use VLC?

Can't right click to pause the video in VLC ;c

It's weird to me that anyone would use a PC hooked up to a TV from a couch in 2024, but I'm sure it (otherwise) works for you.

Uh it’s just me and whoever is on my local network. I don’t port anything or have any users outside my home. When I go on trips I just download movies and shows from my network to my devices

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?

Where should I go to learn more about what you're talking about

Start servicing millions of users. Then we’ll talk.

Wait, is that actually Twitch's history - Justin.tv?

Yeah but megaupload was legit but was still shutdown despite being massive

To be fair, the service they provide isn't hosting the videos, it's making them, which I assume costs a bit more

As per Das Kapital our industrialists always move to capture regulation and seek to eliminate competition, which are the two aspects that can make capitalism work for the public. Then you have what we have today, late stage capitalism which is about tiers of rent, so everything is both shoddy and expensive.

That's how Disney and Warner Brothers (Warner Sister too!) end up owning all the franchises. It's how Sony owns all the music and sues to take down dancing baby videos.

The EU and California have both made in-roads to slowing down the steady takeover of regulatory bodies and the mulching and mass merging of megacorps into monolithic monopolies, but they can't stop it, and both are seeing the bend into precarity that is symptomatic of late stage capitalism.

That said, true post scarcity communism is realistically a pipe dream well beyond a few great filters we've yet to navigate, but we will see small victories, of which piracy -- what is essentially crime against ill-gotten gains -- offers more than a few.

To be fair, the service they provide isn't hosting the videos, it's making them, which I assume costs a bit more

It's not even copyright laws, it's everyone insisting on exclusive contracts. There's no reason a piece of content couldn't be on Netflix and Disney+ at the same time. It would be a lot better for consumers if streamers could compete on price and service instead of which content they managed to create/licence.

Capitalism wherever it is found. Not just the USA.

then i guess the studios should stop enshitifying streaming and make a service thats affordable and worth using, huh?

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

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

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

Tdarr: (Automatic transcoding of media, can help save you a lot of disk space)

That's a new one to me, I'll have to check that out. Thanks!

Been doing conversions via Emby, but it's not a very powerful tool for that.

not all heroes wear capes. thx homie

Impressive, how many inches is your clit?

... LARC cache? Ha! Get on my level, 1.2TiB RAM BB

# Set Max ARC size => 1.2TB == 1,293,222,768,640 Bytes
options zfs zfs_arc_max=1293222768640

# Set Min ARC size => 180GB == 193,273,528,320 Bytes
options zfs zfs_arc_min=193273528320

It is really good.

Your mom is very proud or at least that's what I think she said.. either that or don't be too loud 🤔

Want is not the issue. You can want anything and everything but unless you are able to pay, the need arises for access to the material for a price you can pay that the "legal" owners either dont comprehend or refuse to in the name of greed.

Digital media is culture. And culture should not be reserved for rich people, in my opinion.

Yeah Netflix has to pay for edge connections in major ISPs, and host cash is in places.

I'm trying to switch to Jellyfin I really am. With Plex I could just throw a file bot at my files normalize the names and it was fine. I can't mark things watched or unwatched from the Roku client. I've now tried three separate times to get the Doctor who specials to show up with names. Plex is by no means perfect but it's so much easier to keep Plex goomed

You know, I've heard this gospel before, I might still have the pamphlet...

Honestly, I haven't really looked into jellyfin yet. I hear it's superior in some way... But I already have Plex all set up and I have 4 friends with servers and we all share content. So it would take a lot for me to switch.

Lasted a week and went back to Plex.

Plex is a privacy nightmare that's slowly trying to faze out you having a server all together in favor of feeding you commercialized content from other providers; and many people find Jellyfin is far too unpolished/disorganized for a lot of debatable reasons I won't go into.

I've been quite happy with the middle ground: Emby. It's not FOSS, but is well polished with consistent development, great feature parity across platforms, excellent clients for pretty much every device I'd want to use, and a helpful community ready to assist with any problems you come across. They also have a heavy focus on privacy; with no third party partners collecting your info like Plex, and no telemetry sent from servers/clients.

The lifetime premier license I bought 7 years ago was well worth it.

Jellyfin is a bitch to get working outside my network. I don't get how Plex made it so easy

Couldn't get on with Jellyfin...emby however has been fantastic!

I always wonder why some people are so dedicated to Jellyfin. Even if JF had full feature and experience parity, it would still not have secure remote access the way Plex does. There is no need to port forward or NAT Plex for external access if you use app.plex.tv to access. With the threat landscape the way it is today, that is worth a lot.

I want to switch very badly but their device apps are lacking.

I member the good old days when we were buying our blank CD/DVD in Germany to avoid paying those taxes.

Reminds me of the BBC licence fee in the UK.