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”
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.
It’s not that hard to compete with the ever shrinking Netflix library
Maybe those services could take a hint and create a unified platform where each partner gets a cut depending on % of their content watched.
CEO: share!? profit? SHARE PROFIT!?! SOMEONE CALL SECURITY WE HAVE A COMMUNIST!!!
That was the original idea behind Hulu.
But Netflix had a much better UX and ate their lunch.That and Disney decided they wanted to break (sorry. Let me use the business terms. “Disrupt”) the market by having a vertical integration of streaming platform and production company. The thing is, it did great for the in the short term, but may have harmed them long term. Meanwhile everyone else is now chasing the model that may actually be losing Disney money because short term greed is the only driver in our economy
You mean, like cable?
There’s a very functional middle ground between all in one cable, and a hundred different services.
Like early Netflix before they all decided they would make their own shitty streaming services and didn’t renew contracts.
Let me take this opportunity to get on my soapbox to sat this:
Peacock Sucks Ass
NBC / Universal were one of the first movers in streaming with Seeso. Did they learn lessons from Seeso about how to run a good streaming service? No they abandoned it almost immediately basically saying “this whole streaming thing is just a fad, anyway”
The results? Now its hard to watch those old (genuinely excellent) Seeso shows, and NBC / Universal has managed to make itself late to the streaming party when they were a first actor. And the service itself? Ass. Total cheeks. Major butt. Absolute balloon knot. It always has technical issues AND scanning within an episode is hard because it doesn’t do it in chunks, it acts like a slider in constant motion.
Conclusion: don’t look at Peacock as the idiot child of the streaming landscape. View it as the logical conclusion to media companies’ corporate greed. They want you to pay money for a service that sucks, that’s chock full of ads (oh! That’s another thing. Where do you get off showing me three minutes of ads, Peacock, who do you think you are?), and doesn’t even work decently right while a lot of these UX problems have been solved for over two decades (DVD scanning is easy and fine).
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.
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.
You should really be more specific. All of them have more content than netflix hulu vudu and prime video combined.
My takeaway: jetflix developed a model that worked. Just need to replicate that many times.
Would probably work well for sharing with family /friends.
Wow, that must have had like 12 shows.
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.
Alt: a single pane comic in which a person says to another person: "silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars.
The other person says: “and quartz, of course”
The first person replies: “of course.”
The caption to the comic reads “even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field”
Those people won’t just stop we should stop them
Indeed. The federal agents have stepped way out of line with this one
