Five men were convicted for their part in operating Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal streaming services in the U.S., officials said.
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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.

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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.

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

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