Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

Proving Netflix should could be replaced outdone by five hard working people.

Its almost like its unecessary shit made up in order to keep profits away from working people artificially

Their scale was also an insignificant fraction of what Netflix has, making the point even more irrelevant.

The best figure I could find on Jetflicks user count was 37k, where as Netflix has 269 million users.

If we get rid of the licensing we get rid of the lawyers.

Like Boeing's CEO making 300 million.... imagine 300 people who worked their ass off could make million. Or 1500 hard workers could be making 200k. But nah, let's just drag these huge bags of money into this one asshole's account. Oh there were a couple of crashes right? 👍 Our thoughts and prayers 🙏. But not our money wagons.

Does Netflix make shows? Or does it slam its name onto filmmakers it pays to make content? If so, one of those things simply requires throwing cash at people, which I think is a skill that most people can learn.

Does Netflix? Or do they pay production companies for content?

I think of them when I dream about them facing a firing squad.

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

5 people could do it though.

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

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.

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

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 bearing 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.

Oh I don't care that the IP owner don't get money.

IDK, I just don't like the ethics of pirating media for profit, the entire idea is that it should be accessible to everyone, not just those with money. Cover your operational cost? Sure....Making millions in subscriptions? That is an asshole move IMO. If you're paying, you might as well pay the people who are making the media in the first place instead of some rando that had nothing to do with it.

Throw this national menace into federal max security solitary confinement, next to Hannibal Lecter >:/

JF won't boost volume past 100% like VLC.

For when you need to take it to 11

You might want to consider streaming it on your TV. Modern TVs should have a Plex app at the least. Or use a Chromecast or other setup. I watch on my couch with the TV remote. Its the same experience as watching Netflix.

What platform are you on that you need to use VLC?

Can’t use the scroll wheel for volume. It’s a pain aiming for the volume from across the room on the couch.

apparently this is supposed to be coming in the 9.0 feature release. So soon™ I'd have to look to be sure, but apparently it's coming.

Volume is weird, i feel like i'd almost like either a "volume target" option, to match volume levels between content, or some sort of fixed audio boost level. Idk.

It's weird to me that anyone would use a PC hooked up to a TV from a couch in 2024, but I'm sure it (otherwise) works for you.

Where should I go to learn more about what you're talking about

Start servicing millions of users. Then we’ll talk.

Wait, is that actually Twitch's history - Justin.tv?

Yeah but megaupload was legit but was still shutdown despite being massive

To be fair, the service they provide isn't hosting the videos, it's making them, which I assume costs a bit more

It's not even copyright laws, it's everyone insisting on exclusive contracts. There's no reason a piece of content couldn't be on Netflix and Disney+ at the same time. It would be a lot better for consumers if streamers could compete on price and service instead of which content they managed to create/licence.

Why in the world would you do this in the US?

My use of the word despicable instead of disgusting probably threw you off

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-disgusting-where

Impressive, how many inches is your clit?

... LARC cache? Ha! Get on my level, 1.2TiB RAM BB

    
# Set Max ARC size => 1.2TB == 1,293,222,768,640 Bytes
options zfs zfs_arc_max=1293222768640

# Set Min ARC size => 180GB == 193,273,528,320 Bytes
options zfs zfs_arc_min=193273528320




  

Your mom is very proud or at least that's what I think she said.. either that or don't be too loud 🤔

Want is not the issue. You can want anything and everything but unless you are able to pay, the need arises for access to the material for a price you can pay that the "legal" owners either dont comprehend or refuse to in the name of greed.

Digital media is culture. And culture should not be reserved for rich people, in my opinion.

I'm trying to switch to Jellyfin I really am. With Plex I could just throw a file bot at my files normalize the names and it was fine. I can't mark things watched or unwatched from the Roku client. I've now tried three separate times to get the Doctor who specials to show up with names. Plex is by no means perfect but it's so much easier to keep Plex goomed

You know, I've heard this gospel before, I might still have the pamphlet...

Honestly, I haven't really looked into jellyfin yet. I hear it's superior in some way... But I already have Plex all set up and I have 4 friends with servers and we all share content. So it would take a lot for me to switch.

Plex is a privacy nightmare that's slowly trying to faze out you having a server all together in favor of feeding you commercialized content from other providers; and many people find Jellyfin is far too unpolished/disorganized for a lot of debatable reasons I won't go into.

I've been quite happy with the middle ground: Emby. It's not FOSS, but is well polished with consistent development, great feature parity across platforms, excellent clients for pretty much every device I'd want to use, and a helpful community ready to assist with any problems you come across. They also have a heavy focus on privacy; with no third party partners collecting your info like Plex, and no telemetry sent from servers/clients.

The lifetime premier license I bought 7 years ago was well worth it.

Jellyfin is a removed to get working outside my network. I don't get how Plex made it so easy

I always wonder why some people are so dedicated to Jellyfin. Even if JF had full feature and experience parity, it would still not have secure remote access the way Plex does. There is no need to port forward or NAT Plex for external access if you use app.plex.tv to access. With the threat landscape the way it is today, that is worth a lot.