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

• uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • neclimdul@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is. Until recently it actually still used the domain to serve assets.

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    • uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wild. What an obscure piece of internet history to have missed out on as an old Justin.tv user.

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  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • suction@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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      • phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I see… I only remember the very early days of Justin.tv and kind of lost track of it between then and when it became twitch.

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• aidan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They had their servers seized, but were later returned and the service came back as mega.nz, legit and all.

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    • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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