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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] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Netflix service started as hosting only.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

correction.. Netflix started by mailing DVDs, even before Redbox was a thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ah. Analogue hosting. But they definitely didn't start producing content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, imo it was also a bit more difficult then. But yeah as others said, the licensing was hard too