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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Give me like $7,500 and I provide enough harddisks for 183,200 episodes. I'm not sure what to calculate for traffic, though.

And I mean it's a bit unfortunate that you have to commit money laundering and/or tax fraud alongside this "business model". It's just not that easy to say: Hey, I would like to pay taxes on this pile of money and I don't want to say where I got it from, it's definitely mine, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Were they using cryptocurrency? Maybe that's how they thought they could get away with it. The article doesn't say

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The article doesn't talk much at all about all the interesting technical details.

The press release talks about trouble with payment providers... So I suppose they accepted credit card payment.

Maybe the court documents are publicly available if anyone is willing to dig them up in order to find out... I don't think I'm that interested. If it's a good story, maybe someone will do a documentery or podcast episode at some point. Would probably do for a "true crime" show.