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Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case

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Re: Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case

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There is no way they had more paying subscribers than Netflix. Netflix has 160 million paying customers. These two guys had "more" and made only 1 million dollars total. What?

Probably their total pageviews vs Netflix's total paying customers or something dumb like that.

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post #2

So two programmers ran a streaming website bigger than Netflix from their garage?

Something is fishy about this. Netflix's infrastructure is massive, and their bandwidth usage is a big chunk of the entire internet. How could this possibly go unnoticed for any amount of time?

I think it is in an error in the reporting. The press release from the FBI only mentions content, not subscribers.

I actually remember JetFlix and wondering how they had so much content. They were acting like a real company, IIRC.

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post #21

There is no way they had more paying subscribers than Netflix. Netflix has 160 million paying customers. These two guys had "more" and made only 1 million dollars total. What? Probably their total pageviews vs Netflix's total paying customers or something dumb like that.

Or law enforcement trumping up a number that’s larger than any reasonable number of subscribers they actually had.

Re: Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess Netflix needs their developers for all the random UI changes nobody is asking for and some "unrelated recommendations" engine.

Have you used any pirate streaming websites? They're pure garbage, bad UX, bad image quality, choppy video. The only reason anybody uses them is the price or lack of legal options

> One of the platforms reportedly had more paying subscribers than Netflix, Hulu and other popular licensed streaming platforms.

So it was’t a free service?

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post #4

This might be a naive question but, why is the FBI the office in charge of enforcing copyright? Especially when it comes to entertainment. Why do we get an FBI warning on a cartoon's dvd?

Who else is going to do it? Your local municipal cops?

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post #12
post #4

This might be a naive question but, why is the FBI the office in charge of enforcing copyright? Especially when it comes to entertainment. Why do we get an FBI warning on a cartoon's dvd?

Copyright and patent authority is explicitly granted to the Federal government by Art. I, Sec. 8 of the US constitution: The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; As such, state courts and police forces have no jurisdiction over copyright issues; they mus…

Why didn't FBI get involved against Napster?

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Why would you do this from within the US? The mind boggles.

Because the current streaming service landscape is kind of awful?

I think what he means is why didn't they do this from a country that doesn't care about movie copyrights.

Re: Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess Netflix needs their developers for all the random UI changes nobody is asking for and some "unrelated recommendations" engine.

Have you used any pirate streaming websites? They're pure garbage, bad UX, bad image quality, choppy video. The only reason anybody uses them is the price or lack of legal options

Popcorn Time’s UI is very easy to use, and rarely has problems.

Re: Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case

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post #21

There is no way they had more paying subscribers than Netflix. Netflix has 160 million paying customers. These two guys had "more" and made only 1 million dollars total. What? Probably their total pageviews vs Netflix's total paying customers or something dumb like that.

Not to mention the infrastructure, even if they didn’t host the video content themselves (which I doubt?) just handling that many paying customers would be a major operation.
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