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

kakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • batmaniam@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    5 people could do it though.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends how many users.

      But yeah a lot.

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  • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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

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      • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Bronzie@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Sabin10@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • ADandHD@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is my fork of an existing solution

        github.com/…/MakeMKV-Auto-Rip-Concurrent-Ripping-…

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      • hogmomma@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        DVD Shrink served me well over the years. www.dvdshrink.org/download.php

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      • serpineslair@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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