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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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[–] [email protected] 201 points 6 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 107 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] batmaniam 10 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

5 people could do it though.

[–] ripcord 10 points 6 months ago

Depends how many users.

But yeah a lot.

[–] iopq 3 points 6 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 12 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 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 6 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 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 13 points 6 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 4 points 6 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 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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 1 points 6 months ago

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