• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    5 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@lemmy.world
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      5 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.

      • aidan@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

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