Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case

Re:Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming... by Consultant32452 on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:13AM (#21801529)

Something is fishy about this. Netflix's infrastructure is massive, and their bandwidth usage is a big chunk of the entire internet. How could this possibly go unnoticed for any amount of time?

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Re:Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming... by bestnameever on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:32AM (#21801623)

I think it is in an error in the reporting. The press release from the FBI only mentions content, not subscribers.

I actually remember JetFlix and wondering how they had so much content. They were acting like a real company, IIRC.

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Re:Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming... by the8472 on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:30AM (#21801602)

More content than any of the silos seems plausible, since all they have to do is aggregate.

More paying subscribers would be a huge.

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Re:Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming... by sevencolors on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:21AM (#21801563)

I'd imagine the "more subscribers than Netflix" is an inflated number

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Re:Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming... by busymom0 on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:46AM (#21801686)

What if they were using something like webtorrent to reduce their bandwidth costs?

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Re:Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming... by alecco on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:30AM (#21801610)

It's just a software in front of existing torrents.

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