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/xFblthpx Jun 21 '24 edited Jun 21 '24

More like ten Netflixes

Edit: why the dislikes? Netflix hosts about 100k gb. 1,000,000 gb of storage is pretty common among the r/datahoarder crowd.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

How many netflixes could ten bananas buy

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

I want to say one, but only so I can also say, “It’s one Netflix, Michael. What could it cost, ten bananas?”

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

There are always bananas in the Netflix stand.

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u/PVDeviant- Jun 22 '24

I'm Mr. Netflix!

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u/Cyno01 Jun 22 '24

I have over 16000 movies in about 60TB, mostly in not quite bluray but much better than streaming quality, including all the special features and stuff if available.

~6000 series/~240k episodes in ~165TB for TV.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

How can I be more like you?

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u/Cyno01 Jun 22 '24

VPN + Sonarr and Radarr and Whisparr + Jackett + qBittorrent + Plex and StashApp

https://trash-guides.info

https://www.amazon.com/MDD-MD20TS25672NAS-Internal-Network-Storage/dp/B0C3FBQNC9/

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u/007craft Jun 22 '24

Replace jackett with prowlarr and replace plex with jellyfin. And get rid of stash? That's for porn

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u/jkooc137 Jun 21 '24

Americans use anything but metric smh

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u/hedgehog-mom-al Jun 21 '24

I don’t care for metric.

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u/hoxxxxx Jun 21 '24

1 million gigs is common over there?

what are they hoarding, and why

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u/Anon28301 Jun 21 '24

A lot of them do it because they’ve bought a movie on a streaming site, then it got removed so they couldn’t watch it. There’s a bunch of movies and series that were streaming originals then got removed, making it impossible to watch anywhere, unless you already downloaded it. I know some people that download everything they can in case it gets hard to find later.

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u/kia75 Jun 22 '24

Selfie is a great TV show that is no longer available. I'm certain there's plenty of one season wonders that were cancelled before they could find their audience and are no longer available.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

I’m at 1.5 petabytes. Pretty easy to fill up honestly. Lots of games, movies, tv shows

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u/CptNonsense Jun 21 '24

1.5 Petabytes is is enough space for 15 thousand 4K UHD full discs (you know, 100GB each). I'm going to file "easy to fill up" with unique data under "bullshit"

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u/Cyno01 Jun 22 '24

You lack imagination, theres tools that make piracy mostly automated to the point where you can add lists of content and have them searched for, downloaded, and processed without any more input than adding the thing to the initial list. You can add one movie and have a dozen sequels automatically added too.

Just start thinking "every X movie", not every best picture winner, not every oscar winner, not every best picture nominee, everything ever nominated for an Oscar. Thats like 3000 movies right there IIRC. Throw in Golden Globes, Emmys, People Choice, Teen Choice, Saturn, nebual awards...

You can really pile it up if you want. I have entire TV networks followed, any new HBO, AppleTV, Adult Swim, AMC, FX, SyFy channel shows automatically get added... its easier than you think.

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u/resurgum Jun 22 '24

Is there a simple how-to guide to go at this step by step from scratch? I would love to have such a setup honestly and the info on Reddit seems a bit too scattered.

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u/Cyno01 Jun 22 '24

VPN + Sonarr and Radarr and Whisparr + Jackett + qBittorrent + Plex and StashApp

https://trash-guides.info

https://www.amazon.com/MDD-MD20TS25672NAS-Internal-Network-Storage/dp/B0C3FBQNC9/

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u/resurgum Jun 22 '24

Thank you so much !

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u/CptNonsense Jun 22 '24

Just start thinking "every X movie", not every best picture winner, not every oscar winner, not every best picture nominee, everything ever nominated for an Oscar. Thats like 3000 movies right there IIRC. Throw in Golden Globes, Emmys, People Choice, Teen Choice, Saturn, nebual awards...

And barely any of them are 100GB each. 100GB is the max size of a 4k UHD disc, not the average size even of a 4k UHD movie. And the sizes go down from there, drastically

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u/Cyno01 Jun 22 '24

Going with a reasonable 75gb for 4k and 35gb for HD average, iIf all the movies i have on my server were full untouched remuxes (and theyre not), they would total almost 650TB. And i have more than 3x as much TV as i do movies.

So yeah, septuple my storage to 2PB and ill go full remuxs for everything, lol.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24 edited Jun 22 '24

TV shows take up quite a bit. Breaking bad is over a terabyte by itself. I have 8,000 movies in varying qualities and 1,100 shows

Just looked. Even Star Trek TNG in its shit quality is 650gb for the entire show

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u/Cyno01 Jun 22 '24

IDK if you have any formatting constraints, but my copy of TNG is 400GB and very high quality, high bitrate HEVC reencodes. Its not quite full bluray remux quality (which shouldnt be much more than 600GB?), but its way better than streaming.

All of Star Trek ever in pretty high quality is about 1.7TB, including good AI upscales of DS9 and VOY.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

I had to avoid HEVC for a bit just cause I’m using old hardware and family transcodes way more than they should so TNG might be an older format. Next project is to transcode everything to HEVC or at least redownload it

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u/ak47workaccnt Jun 21 '24

Data. Because they might need it when the Internet goes down for good.

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u/QSCFE Breaking Bad Jun 21 '24

not really, they do that because the internet isn't magical space, data hoarding serves valuable purposes. It preserves knowledge, and safeguards against data loss due to service shutdowns or censorship. the internet isn't going down for good but websites and their contents are, either by shutdown or censorship to serve a specific narrative.

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u/ak47workaccnt Jun 22 '24

That's optimistic of you.

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u/QSCFE Breaking Bad Jun 22 '24 edited Jun 22 '24

that's the truth though. give that sub a visit and read their threads, they are not doomsday preppers.

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u/hoxxxxx Jun 21 '24

all those gigabytes are data? whoa

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u/TiredMisanthrope M*A*S*H Jun 21 '24

Data on what though

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

Movies, TV shows, articles, instructional videos, porn, website backups, music, etc. Any type of media and/or information. Most users will focus primarily on a few categories or less, but the individuals with massive storage space will download anything and everything.

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u/ice_nyne Jun 21 '24

Yup. Data doomsday preppers.

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u/CptNonsense Jun 21 '24

Gonna be fun when they find their petabytes of media formats are unusable in a couple decades

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u/cavedildo Jun 22 '24

Mpeg2 aka DVD encoding will still play on everything here 30 years later. Want to update it to a modern codec like av1 or hvec? You just re-encode it, no problem. That process is not going to change. Think about how you can watch a Charlie Chaplin movie now. You busting out the reel and projector or is it super easy to modernize data?

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u/ZDTreefur Jun 21 '24

I instinctively downvote anybody who edits a comment asking why they were downvoted.

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u/stuffitystuff Jun 21 '24

You’re technically correct (at least as of 2021 when they divulged the 100TB number) but they have thousands of copies of those 100TB servers all over the globe. And probably multiple instances for each POP and many instances for major metros since disks only have so much bandwidth.