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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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[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 107 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All of those things already exist. Typically it's just a Plex server running on a cloud service.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Yeah like... Netflix has peering agreements and whatnot but.. It's not 2005.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

5 people could do it though.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Depends how many users.

But yeah a lot.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world's highest trafficked websites

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive.

Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

Not only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)