• rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    Give me like $7,500 and I provide enough harddisks for 183,200 episodes. I’m not sure what to calculate for traffic, though.

    And I mean it’s a bit unfortunate that you have to commit money laundering and/or tax fraud alongside this “business model”. It’s just not that easy to say: Hey, I would like to pay taxes on this pile of money and I don’t want to say where I got it from, it’s definitely mine, though.

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      4 months ago

      Were they using cryptocurrency? Maybe that’s how they thought they could get away with it. The article doesn’t say

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        The article doesn’t talk much at all about all the interesting technical details.

        The press release talks about trouble with payment providers… So I suppose they accepted credit card payment.

        Maybe the court documents are publicly available if anyone is willing to dig them up in order to find out… I don’t think I’m that interested. If it’s a good story, maybe someone will do a documentery or podcast episode at some point. Would probably do for a “true crime” show.