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posted by chromas on Thursday August 29 2019, @12:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the why-have-one-cheap-service-with-everything-when-you-could-have-117? dept.

Eight individuals have been charged with an indictment by the United States for allegedly running two of the "largest unauthorized streaming services".

The federal grand jury that gave the indictment alleges that the two streaming services, Jetflicks and iStreamItAll (ISIA), caused copyright owners to lose millions of dollars.

Both services were used by tens of thousands of subscribers, and could be accessed online and on numerous systems including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, video game consoles, digital media players, set-top boxes, and web browsers.

Jetflicks allegedly obtained infringing television programs from pirate websites -- such as The Pirate Bay, RARBG and Torrentz -- by using automated computer scripts, and then would provide the pirated content to subscribers soon after the shows were aired.

ISIA allegedly used many of the same automated tools that Jetflicks employed to locate, download, process, and store illegal content -- but ISIA also provided movies in addition to television programs -- to quickly make pirated content available to ISIA subscribers.

The two services allegedly reproduced tens of thousands of copyrighted television episodes and movies without authorization, the Justice Department said, and distributed the infringing programs to tens of thousands of paid subscribers located throughout the US and Canada.


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  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Thursday August 29 2019, @01:14AM

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Thursday August 29 2019, @01:14AM (#887089)

    So they lost one night of blow and hookers.

    Boo fucking hoo. Hollywood are the real crooks.

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