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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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[โ€“] geekworking 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They had a big library, but not the user base. They were definitely not maintaining anywhere near the infrastructure and bandwidth of major streaming platforms. Netflix claims 260 million users. It's not hard to get a giant catalog when you dont have to pay for it.

[โ€“] linearchaos 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah Netflix has to pay for edge connections in major ISPs, and host cash is in places.