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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)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

Maybe those services could take a hint and create a unified platform where each partner gets a cut depending on % of their content watched.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (10 children)

You mean, like cable?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

There's a very functional middle ground between all in one cable, and a hundred different services.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah. We were there! Or close enough... It was a glorious week where everything lined up perfectly... Then we overshot and we are in this clusterfuck of nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

"We" didn't do anything wrong. The people controlling the companies involved did. Don't include yourself with a group of bad people if you're not part of them.