After Providers , Sources now iptv programmers are being targeted

by markitingrush

The war against illegal services continue , now targeting even Programmers , source : torrent freak :

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A man who worked as a programmer for a major pirate streaming operation has been sentenced in the US. Luis Angel Villarino was indicted in August 2019 for his part in running Jetflicks . After admitting to one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, he has now been ordered to serve 12 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

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The day after Polo pleaded guilty in 2019, former Jetflicks programmer Luis Angel Villarino pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement.

The Las Vegas resident admitted to his part in offering an illegal subscription-based streaming service that reproduced tens of thousands of copyrighted television episodes without authorization, and streamed and distributed the infringing programs to tens of thousands of paid subscribers throughout the United States.

Villarino (at the time aged 40) was originally due to be sentenced in March 2020 but due to various delays, including complications caused by the coronavirus pandemic, that didn’t take place until last month.

stokedcrf

It's always torrentfreak releasing news like this of services I've never even heard of! Wonder how they find all these articles or what topics they are scraping the web for!

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Source: https://torrentfreak.com/jetflicks-programmer-of-pirate-iptv-service-handed-12-months-in-prison-210617/

Br0kenRabbitTV

It's the fact he was working with a service though, what else would you expect?

You could make an IPTV player and put it on an app store legally, but not if you involve yourself with a illegal streaming service directly, making apps for it. Part of a criminal enterprise.

It also amazes me how dumb some resellers are, they act like it's all legal.

themaesta22

This is not new.

In germany the programmer of the CMS (Content Management System) of a movie streaming site was sentenced to almost 4 years in prison in 2012.

That CMS allowed users to submit (external) links to movies. The guy literally coded a site that made submitting links to external sites possible. He did not host or run the site himself. He was just the programmer of the CMS as a part of the team of that site. He did basically nothing illegal but the court still sentenced him for "copyright violations"...

xunh01yx

This is why most providers don't have VOD anymore