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It's sad that these people got taken down. Maybe the next people to do it will do it from a country that does not have extradition with the United States, so they would be safe.
"The group used “sophisticated computer scripts” and software to scour piracy services"
They used the basic tools that most(?) pirates use today like sonarr and radar??
I don't mind people pirating...i do mind people pirating and profiting from redistribution.
redistribution = service?
Why would they work for free?
Not gonna pretend like this aint illegal but i don't cry over some IP owners losing money... EVER, fuck 'em
Oh I don't care that the IP owner don't get money.
IDK, I just don't like the ethics of pirating media for profit, the entire idea is that it should be accessible to everyone, not just those with money. Cover your operational cost? Sure....Making millions in subscriptions? That is an asshole move IMO. If you're paying, you might as well pay the people who are making the media in the first place instead of some rando that had nothing to do with it.
All fair points.
I think the issue is that IP owners are mega corps, ie people who made the content don't own it and can't provide it anyway.
This doesn't seem that different from paying for usenet. It's not like they're making DVDs of pirated movies and selling them on the street corner; they were basically just aggregating content and the service they were providing was making it easily searchable and accessible, not doing the actual pirating, from the sound of it, unless I'm misunderstanding the situation.
Guessing they used Sonarr, Radarr, qBittorrent, maybe an NZB client....
Would you look at that, I'm sophisticated now.
Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren't bound to license agreements, turns out it's actually very easy to have a "massive" content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.
Yeah it costs, depending on quality of course.
My 14 TB disks are filling up faster than I expected and I am not close to Netflix’s catalogue.
I mean, distributing it isn't a small feat. Plus you need to manage subscriptions, billings, CMS, a front end to navigate the content, etc.
That's no small amount of work, even if they used out of the box solutions for many layers.
183,200 TV episodes is pretty modest compared to alternative "non-approved" sources.
One datapoint is one source (that has a rule against any TV/show content released in the last 5 years) has a total number of 19.5K shows and TV movies/specials, with ~80 K releases. For many shows a single release can be a full season.
Proving Netflix could be replaced by five hard working people.
They didn’t need the army of lawyers to get license deals, so that’s not a fair comparison.
Proving Netflix could be ~~replaced~~ outdone by five hard working people.
Proving Netflix should ~~could~~ be ~~replaced~~ outdone by five hard working people.
The only reason all companies prices go up these days is for CEO pay packages
The poor copyright holders. Won’t someone think of the corporations for once?
I run a massive streaming service too, which is also way bigger than all the streamers combined. It's just only distributed over my private home network. Jellyfin for the win!
You’re under arrest!
Throw this national menace into federal max security solitary confinement, next to Hannibal Lecter >:/
Not without paying licencing fees for Hannibal Lecter first!
What a terrible shame it would be to have a friend over to watch the telly without a loicense...🧠, wouldn't you say?
Love my Jellyfin server, but I have 2 gripes over just using VLC.
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Can't use the scroll wheel for volume. It's a pain aiming for the volume from across the room on the couch.
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JF won't boost volume past 100% like VLC.
Know of any fixes?
You can run your Jellyfin connection inside of Kodi which has a ton of configuration options like the volume control.
JF won't boost volume past 100% like VLC.
For when you need to take it to 11
Are you playing directly on your server?
For the first one at least you could solve it by running JF with a Chromecast or similar device.
Feels cleaner than a wireless mouse in the living room too, IMO
I wonder how that compares to my own collection...
I haven't found a source for the size of Netflix/Amazon/Hulus libraries; but I haven't looked all that hard either.
If they had more content on offer than the big legal streaming services combined, should that not tell us something about the quality of legal offers?
What's there to learn that isn't already widely known? Existing (copyright) laws are asinine and all corporations eventually become consumed by greed. That's America in a nutshell.
It harmed no one and nothing.
TV and Film are just angry that competition did it for a reasonable price and provided a superior service for it.
Streaming services become required by law like insurance
Wait, why am I required to pay for a streaming service?
Because it has all of the entertainment electrolytes a human needs