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0 pointsjaarse1y ago0 comments

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.

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samatman1y ago

Piracy is distributed, yes.

I think that is the point, in fact.

robertlagrant1y ago

Everything's easy when it's someone else's content.

samatman1y ago

I 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.

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0 pointsjaarse1y ago0 comments

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.

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samatman1y ago

Piracy is distributed, yes.

I think that is the point, in fact.

robertlagrant1y ago

Everything's easy when it's someone else's content.

samatman1y ago

I 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.

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