• ✺roguetrick✺
    link
    English
    1037 months ago

    You gotta be stupid as shit to run something like this from the US and keep a financial tail of credit card payments to you.

    You also gotta be stupid as shit to actually pay 10 bux for this.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
      link
      English
      58
      edit-2
      7 months ago

      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.

        • @neclimdul
          link
          English
          247 months ago

          It is. Until recently it actually still used the domain to serve assets.

        • @phoneymouse
          link
          English
          37 months ago

          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
            link
            English
            7
            edit-2
            7 months ago

            Removed by mod

            • @phoneymouse
              link
              English
              07 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.

      • @aidan
        link
        English
        47 months ago

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

          • @aidan
            link
            English
            67 months ago

            Yeah uh no. that’s not the whole story, Mega is a new company, the difference is it’s encrypted so the theory was they’d have no way to scan for pirated content. Mega was also seized people think, it’s unclear who or what currently opperates it. And Kim Dotcom’s extradition case is ongoing.

          • @aidan
            link
            English
            27 months ago

            Yeah uh no. that’s not the whole story, Mega is a new company, the difference is it’s encrypted so the theory was they’d have no way to scan for pirated content. Mega was also seized people think, it’s unclear who or what currently opperates it. And Kim Dotcom’s extradition case is ongoing.