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Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined (variety.com)
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[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 201 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 107 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Yeah like... Netflix has peering agreements and whatnot but.. It's not 2005.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

5 people could do it though.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Depends how many users.

But yeah a lot.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive.

Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago

Not only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)

[–] Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it costs, depending on quality of course.
My 14 TB disks are filling up faster than I expected and I am not close to Netflix’s catalogue.

[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You guys wouldn't happen to have any tips on DVD ripping would you? I'd like to go all digital but I just can't make Handbrake work.

[–] hogmomma@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've never gotten Handbrake to do anything I wanted. DVD Shrink, on the other hand, is one of my top five most-used apps. It's quite old, but DVD encryption hasn't changed since its release.

https://www.dvdshrink.org/download.php

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I couldn't either... I ended up using dd, though it's probably not the best way by a long shot.