Five men were convicted for their part in operating Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal streaming services in the U.S., officials said.
  • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

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

      • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

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

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

        • Irelephant@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

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

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

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