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

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Post by tdurden » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 7:51 AM UTC

Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case
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Post by mapleoin » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 8:06 AM UTC

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

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Post by tsukurimashou » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 8:07 AM UTC

mapleoin wrote: post #2

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

and yet they are getting punished for it, what a world we live in, right?

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Post by firefoxd » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 8:11 AM UTC

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?

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Post by paule89 » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 8:12 AM UTC

Its like in the beginning of torrenting. Nobody willing to offer a service for everyone, for a fair price. Everybody gatekeeping selling only their stuff. And if you want everything pay this atrocious sum of money.

I tell you this will happen more often and people are willing to pay. But not pay for everything. Good thing they had going. Well it was still illegal, but hey it will happen again i tell you.

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Post by hamhand » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 8:12 AM UTC

mapleoin wrote: post #2

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

The numbers don't add up.

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Post by Consultant32452 » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 8:13 AM UTC

mapleoin wrote: 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?

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Post by 1234ideclare » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 8:15 AM UTC

mapleoin wrote: post #2

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

I would be super interested in a detailed breakdown of their stack, I assume something built on p2p was used, otherwise the compute, bandwidth, and storage costs would be insane.

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Post by slykar » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 8:15 AM UTC

mapleoin wrote: post #2

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

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

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Post by Consultant32452 » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 8:15 AM UTC

firefoxd wrote: 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?

I believe it's because it's an inter-state crime. Once crimes cross state borders you have to get the federal level police involved, which is the FBI.