“substantial harm to television program copyright owners,”
Give me a fucking break
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Won't somebody think of the television program copyright owners??
Those poor, poor, TV execs... They all had to settle for gold plating in their heated in-door pools and Rolls Royces instead of platinum. 😔
Proving Netflix could be replaced by five hard working people.
Proving Netflix could be ~~replaced~~ outdone by five hard working people.
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If five people can maintain a service bigger than all those combined, then the big streamers need to buck their fucking ideas up.
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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 beating 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.
You're focusing on the non victory and ignoring the failures. Cowards.
That's not true, they successfully did their job of protecting capital and the owner class. Same reason they don't go after Trump. He's in the owner class, so their job is to serve and protect him.
When cops only legal responsibility is to enforce the law, and the laws are written to protect corporate interests, of course they will stand outside the school and arrest protesters. SCOTUS has ruled that way so many times that "to serve and protect" is literally gaslighting.
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
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It probably also had better user experience than all of them
It's amazing how I can run a better streaming service from my basement than the ones I pay for.
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They're here doing everyone a service. Why are there resources to prosecute this but not like elon musk's insider trading?
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 ownership class will tremble before a communist revolution!
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.
They probably used Sonarr and Radarr and called it a day (or similar off-the-shelf tools available on GitHub). It's not very sophisticated at all. That combined with Jellyfin and a VPN (or Usenet or a country that doesn't care about piracy) and you have your own up and running. You could also just use free sites with an ad blocker instead of paying $10/mo like the service this article is about charged.
Unrelated to all of this: https://rentry.co/megathread
If there is no need,such places would not exist
Five men convicted by the court of the high seas for being absolute chads
The only thing I'm pisseed about is the fact that I was unaware of its existence. Fuck the system
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Yeah, I've got one of those too. Plex is great.
ITT: Have you heard the good news about our lord and saviour, Jellyfin?
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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.
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“Sophisticated scripts to scour pirate sites”.
I think we’ve just found a new tagline for radarr and sonarr.
Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren't bound to license agreements, turns out it's actually very easy to have a "massive" content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.
I mean, distributing it isn't a small feat. Plus you need to manage subscriptions, billings, CMS, a front end to navigate the content, etc.
That's no small amount of work, even if they used out of the box solutions for many layers.
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