Jetflicks, which charged $9.99 per month for the streaming service, generated millions of dollars in subscription revenue and caused “substantial harm to television program copyright owners,” the Justice Department said Thursday.
The group used “sophisticated computer scripts” and software to scour piracy services (including the Pirate Bay and Torrentz) for illegal copies of TV episodes, which they then downloaded and hosted on Jetflicks’ servers, according to federal prosecutors. The men were charged in 2019 with conspiring to violate federal criminal copyright law.
The jury convicted the five men of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. In addition, the jury convicted Dallmann of two counts of money laundering by concealment and three counts of misdemeanor criminal copyright infringement. Dallmann faces a maximum penalty of 48 years in prison, while Courson, Garcia, Jaurequi and Huber each face a maximum of five years in prison, according to the Justice Department. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
I wish the article told us which crime could lead to which sentence length. Is money laundering punished more or less than copyright infringement?
Read in another they tried to get away from copyright claims by pretending their busy was a private aviation company, so I imagine they are also not happy about the fraud that involves.
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I wish the article told us which crime could lead to which sentence length. Is money laundering punished more or less than copyright infringement?
Read in another they tried to get away from copyright claims by pretending their busy was a private aviation company, so I imagine they are also not happy about the fraud that involves.