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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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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It ran functionally uncontested for ten years. And it would hardly have been the first underground streaming service to pivot legit and cash out.

Napster was sold for $85M back in 2002. Justin.tv rebranded as Twitch in 2011. Hell, AWS has it's share of pirate hosted files.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah but megaupload was legit but was still shutdown despite being massive

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait, is that actually Twitch's history - Justin.tv?

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Was Justin.tv doing copyright infringing things? I seem to remember it was just a guy streaming his everyday life. He would literally wear a hat with a camera on it and record everything he did all day. It makes sense that it became twitch because they solved a technical problem around mass streaming that empowers twitch today.

[–] suction@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I remember watching Pay-tv (Premier League / Bundesliga matches) on Justin TV back in the day, when it was still obscure enough to not attract the copyright holder's attention. That was definitely infringing.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

I see.. I only remember the very early days of Justin.tv and kind of lost track of it between then and when it became twitch.