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Everyone pointing out that their illegal streams, X streams, etc. work fine are kind of missing the point. These secondary streams might be serving a couple th
by jaarse 2y ago
Everyone pointing out that their illegal streams, X streams, etc. work fine are kind of missing the point.
These secondary streams might be serving a couple thousand users at best.
Initial estimates are in the hundreds of millions for Netflix.
Kind of a couple of orders of magnitude difference there.
- samatman 2y agoPiracy is distributed, yes. I think that is the point, in fact.
- robertlagrant 2y agoEverything's easy when it's someone else's content.
- samatman 2y agoI have to assume this is some snarky way of saying "violating copyright is Bad, m'kay". Because taken at face value it's false. Any technical challenges involved in distributing a stream cannot possibly be affected by the legal status of the bits being pushed across the network.
- robertlagrant 2y agoIt means that someone who spends 100% of their money on distribution is going to have an easier time than someone who pays for content and distribution.