Where the heck do streaming sites (of the not corpo variety) even source their content? Like, it feels like they're getting data more reliably than torrents these days.
@hng Like, illegal streaming sites pay people to scour for content and add it to the site? Where do those people then source it? Do they do the rips on behalf of the site from DVDs and websites?
@mauve just a thought that there maybe more money in the illegal streaming industry (ads etc.) compared to bittorrent. Sourcing should not be different compared to bittorrent but maybe there are more incentives and a bigger market?
@mauve A lot of stuff that trickles down to streaming sites tends to come from either the big private trackers or the scene
@msub2 Very useful insight ty. Totally forgot that private trackers were a thing.
@mauve they pay people?