Rights holders, and all-all-all

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    At your request , we are starting to disclose "insider" information about the KENGURU.TV online cinema and how everything is going on with us.
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    A lot of interesting things are happening and have been happening. It all started when a team of IT specialists met with a team from a completely different world, maybe even from a different universe - a universe of rights to content, “majors”, “prime times”, “pay-per-view”, “share of rhubarb "And together they began to do what subsequently became KENGURU.TV. For myself, the complexity of the device and the relationships within the film industry, I appreciate the complexity of the assembler for the Zilog Z80 microprocessor (I think this comparison will be closest to us, people related to IT) - that is, to understand all this is quite realistic, if necessary, but mana is needed. ;)
    Instead of manuals, “filmmakers” have movie markets. As you can see from the photo above, this is such a special place where all the fun happens, and you begin to understand what it means to work, for example, with Universal or HBO.

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    I would evaluate the duration of our negotiations with copyright holders as “endless”, and my interest in a legal online cinema in Russia and Ukraine as “rest my forehead against the wall”. We did not give up. Unfortunately, there is no other way to “do it legally”. For me personally, it was a revelation in the number of types of rights to show a movie or series. Thus, it will not be possible to buy the rights “to display on the Internet” - the Internet is divided by the Internet.

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    (Bullpen “Workdays of a film industry worker”)

    It turned out that the domestic copyright holders are already aware of the “new media”, and know firsthand about the trackers. Over the course of six months, crazy questionnaires rained down on us, which dealt with both purely legal issues and deeply technical ones. Be prepared that Disney (well, not personally, of course, although after hundreds of answers, we also dreamed of something else at night) will ask you about ssl connections and how securely content is deleted after the contract has come to a conclusion the end.

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    Despite all the difficulties, for a year and a half we stubbornly moved towards the goal. And this movement has not stopped for a second still. The main incentive for us is a simple action pattern, a picture that we drew for ourselves when everything was just beginning: not an abstract user, but someone and us, comes home after work, opens a laptop, goes to the Kangaroo and just clicks “play ". We see KENGURU.TV exclusively as a place with free, high-quality films that are not ashamed to recommend to friends. Writing reviews of such films does not cause pain in the pelvic area, you only incur financial obligations to your Internet provider, the moral and legal side of viewing makes your karma smile :)

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    Well, about our “fall” and “rebellion”.
    As it turned out, the correct server setup is not all. We survived the habroeffect with dignity, and it would seem that nothing portended trouble. Yeah, well. Under the pressure of users, the iron surrendered. The main server motherboard burned out, and with it, apparently, somewhere in the area of ​​the disk controller, dragging their contents along to the other side of the Styx;)
    It took us a whole week to restore everything, reload movies and rent an additional server. Fortunately, the backup of the KENGURU.TV base was in a completely different place, so the user data remained intact.
    From here we learned a useful, albeit painful, lesson that you always need to have a server for "substitution."
    By the way, remembering the advertising company of our hosting, we were very anxious to see for ourselves how they were repairing, but did not have time. Everything happened pretty quickly :)

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    Now KENGURU.TV is operating normally. We keep our promise - one new film a day, and before the holidays we even overtake the schedule by adding 2-3 at a time. In addition to entertaining shows, Woody Allen 's Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Returns are now available on the direct site - an amazing English film that has turned from a short film into a full-fledged film in just 25 days, and another attempt to film Bulgakov ’s “Master and Margarita” , from the director of Dog Heart.
    Your support is especially pleasant - the previous article on Habrécaused a resonance, both among users of Twitter, and among bloggers. We received a lot of useful tips and in the very near future, in accordance with some of them, we will improve the usability and speed of the site. We have freed up time to write more often and more.

    So, we do not say goodbye. Passwords and appearances are the same - here and on KENGURU.TV .

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