One of the largest continuous television shows listening to the United States has been dismantled with the help of the Royal Canadian Gendarmerie (RCMP).
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Five men from Nevada were also sentenced to sentences on Monday that could go up to seven years in prison for having operated “Jetflicks”, according to information from a statement published Tuesday by the Public Affairs Office of the United States Department of Justice.
The RCMP contributed to the FBI investigation since some service servers were in Canada.
This is the largest hacking case on the Internet subject to a trial as well as the first unlawful dissemination case never judged, said the press release.
“What, what is it?
The accused operated a continuously paid illegal paying service called “Jetflicks” which provided more television episodes than any continuously authorized broadcast service on the market.
The platform claimed in particular to have 183,285 different television episodes, much more than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, Amazon Prime or any other continuous broadcast service under license, which were made available to tens of thousands of paid subscribers located in all of the United States, without anyone paying copy rights.
“This system has generated millions of dollars of criminal profits and has prejudiced thousands of American companies and individuals who held the copyright of these programs, but who have never received a penny of compensation from Jetflicks,” the Deputy Prosecutor General Matthew R. Galeotti, the criminal prosecutor, said in the press release.
The government has cautiously estimated the value of copyright violation in this case at $ 37.5 million.
The accused – Kristopher Lee Dallmann (42), Peter H. Huber (67), Jared Edward Jaurequi (44), Felipe Garcia (43) and Douglas M. Courson (65) – were all guilty of conspiracy in order to commit an offense to copyright.
For his part, Mr. Dallmann was also found guilty of criminal violation of copyright by distribution, criminal violation of copyright by public execution and money laundering.