roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You gotta be stupid as shit to run something like this from the US and keep a financial tail of credit card payments to you.
You also gotta be stupid as shit to actually pay 10 bux for this.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You gotta be stupid as shit to run something like this from the US and keep a financial tail of credit card payments to you.
You also gotta be stupid as shit to actually pay 10 bux for this.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It ran functionally uncontested for ten years. And it would hardly have been the first underground streaming service to pivot legit and cash out.
Napster was sold for $85M back in 2002. Justin.tv rebranded as Twitch in 2011.
uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Wait, is that actually Twitch’s history - Justin.tv?
neclimdul@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It is. Until recently it actually still used the domain to serve assets.
uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Wild. What an obscure piece of internet history to have missed out on as an old Justin.tv user.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Was Justin.tv doing copyright infringing things? I seem to remember it was just a guy streaming his everyday life. He would literally wear a hat with a camera on it and record everything he did all day. It makes sense that it became twitch because they solved a technical problem around mass streaming that empowers twitch today.
suction@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I remember watching Pay-tv (Premier League / Bundesliga matches) on Justin TV back in the day, when it was still obscure enough to not attract the copyright holder’s attention.
aidan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah but megaupload was legit but was still shutdown despite being massive
viking@infosec.pub 3 months ago
They had their servers seized, but were later returned and the service came back as mega.nz, legit and all.
aidan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah uh no. that’s not the whole story, Mega is a new company, the difference is it’s encrypted so the theory was they’d have no way to scan for pirated content. Mega was also seized people think, it’s unclear who or what currently opperates it. And Kim Dotcom’s extradition case is ongoing.
aidan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah uh no. that’s not the whole story, Mega is a new company, the difference is it’s encrypted so the theory was they’d have no way to scan for pirated content. Mega was also seized people think, it’s unclear who or what currently opperates it. And Kim Dotcom’s extradition case is ongoing.