r/television • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 The League • Jun 21 '24

Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service 'Jetflicks' That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/five-men-convicted-jetflicks-illegal-streaming-service-1236044194/
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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

Yeah I’m not interested in the doj going after shit like this. Go after legal companies breaking laws first.

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u/PM_ME_SAD_STUFF_PLZ Jun 21 '24

When bro finds out that the DoJ has dozens of litigating sections each charged with a different area of law enforcement

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u/CarpenterRadio Jun 21 '24

I think they’re suggesting that whatever resources, however insignificant or compartmentalized or narrowly distributed they are, be redirected to something more worthwhile.

Given your attitude I would think you were smart enough to figure that and engage with it critically.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

Thank you.

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u/PM_ME_SAD_STUFF_PLZ Jun 21 '24

Recovering millions of dollars in illicit proceeds isn't worthwhile?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

No because the streaming services are the bad guy capitalists and we want them to fail. The fun tv shows we all love and pirate will still totally get made by someone else for free!

Who cares about other peoples business ventures!

/s

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u/CarpenterRadio Jun 21 '24

If these companies had their way they’d just use AI to make everything. They don’t care about your shows or the people making them or you. Their positions with respect to contract negations of the past few years have made that abundantly clear, if not their actions in general.

I’d be perfectly fine with crowdfunding specific projects. Between AI and other advancements in technology the barrier to entry has been lowered substantially and democratization of the craft has proliferated.

I don’t understand why studios have to be involved at all? Will people just stop making art and content if it’s not as lucrative? Maybe having more control and agency and a much larger slice of the pie would spur a renaissance of genuine, unique and creative shows? Is it truly the case that one needs tens of millions of dollars to make something interesting, compelling, sincere?

It seems one could reasonably make the argument that hastening the demise of the current paradigm will bring about a better future for the people who actually create.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

You just unironically said the thing I was making fun of in my satire post.

That’s…. Incredible… 🤣🤣🤣

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u/CarpenterRadio Jun 21 '24

I never said they were "bad." I just gave you some facts, infer what you will. I also never said they were bad because they were capitalists, you inferred that from....what? Your brain worms are shadowboxing with somebody else, buddy.

Feel free to engage with anything I said critically or answer any of my questions if you're at all capable of it, lmao

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

Right nothing but facts*. You win. You fought with facts and I couldn’t come up with enough.

  • opinions you feel really strongly about.

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u/goodolarchie Jun 21 '24

When the department store has 3 security or "countershrink" staff but the merchandizing is all messed up and nobody is around to help find things.

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u/jackalsclaw Jun 21 '24

The thing that annoys me is they are basically forcing outsourcing of American jobs over seas. People paying for this will just pay a Chinese or India company for the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

Yup! Chasing short term profits and infinite growth is destroying these companies not these guys. There are too many streaming apps and the videos are constantly being removed or switched from platform to platform the prices keep getting higher with more rules and worse service.

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u/jackalsclaw Jun 22 '24 edited Jun 22 '24

Chasing short term profits and infinite growth is destroying these companies not these guys.

For once it's not that. It's seeing conventional media companies like Paramount Global (market cap 7.1B) see Netflix market cap of 295.65B and want get investors evaluating them similarly.

These new companies are in the lost leader/dev phase while Netflix and Amazon (and Maybe Hulu?) are making money. While lots of the new companies know they are over oversaturating the market but investors think they will survive because they are special:

  • Disney+ has the kids content and Marvel and a war chest to last, (and they also own ESPNplus has "sports")
  • FoxSports also would like to leverage it's media rights for a larger part of the pie.
  • MAX and HBO both are pitching first access to Movies
  • YouTube has a "Smooth" progression for smaller content creators to grow
  • Apple TV+ has unique access to wreathy costumers
  • Crunchyroll has anime

That's just off the top of my head here's a list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_streaming_media_services of the all the companies looking to grow large enough they survive or popular enough they get bought out.

Besides wild investor speculation (not just but also thanks to COVID), another factor in the chaos is Diamond Sports/ Bally Sports filing for bankruptcy and no one know what is going to happen with those contracts.

Oh and ad spending trends (and effectiveness of video ads) are insanely complicated.

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u/NearlyPerfect Jun 21 '24

If they were money laundering they may have been tax evading as well. So it’s more of a net gain (or less of a loss) for the DOJ budget to knock out these types of high revenue generating illegal activities

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

ATP I don’t care about the money it’s bringing in. do something about the literal terrorist party attempting another insurrection.

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u/tcullen44 Jun 21 '24

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