Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site

Re:Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site by Telaneo on Friday November 07, 2025 @05:22AM (#45845113)

Yes. Although there are some gaps, you have to go fairly far out there to find them. Most everything is on every music streaming platform. The music industry got that memo after MP3 piracy became rampant.

But the video streaming platforms haven't gotten that memo yet and prefer to dig themselves into a larger and larger hole, both as far as normal Netflix style on-demand streaming, and IPTV style streams for sports and such. Hence why piracy of both are growing, with torrents on one side and IPTV pirate streams on the other.

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Re:Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site by b3lvedere on Friday November 07, 2025 @06:29AM (#45845406)

Not that the music business has had some very shady business in the past, but my guess is that the movie industry is even more shady. Didn't the Harry Potter movies make a gigantic loss on paper? Steve Jackson had to sue the company to get his Lord of The Rings money, if i'm not mistaken.

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Re:Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site by mschuster91 on Friday November 07, 2025 @07:13AM (#45845624)

Yup, "hollywood accounting" at its finest. It's exploitative AF - established actors and other key staff can demand percentage of gross revenue, everyone else gets either a fixed amount or, worse, net revenue percentage. But as there is always a fresh supply of new desperates, you either take what is offered or you go hungry.

Even the big unions have failed to put an end to this unholy mess.

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