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Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined (variety.com)
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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does Netflix? Or do they pay production companies for content?

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They use the subscription money to pay production studios. What did the pirate site use the subscription money for?

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Servers, electricity, bandwidth, blackjack and hookers.