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Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined (variety.com)

submitted 4 months ago by MHSJenkins@infosec.pub to c/anarcho_hackers@lemmy.ml

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This is the energy we need going forward into the second half of the year.

" Five men were convicted by a federal jury in Las Vegas this week for their part in operating Jetflicks, which officials say was one of the largest illegal streaming services in the U.S.

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."

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Surely they monetize traffic in some way that takes advantage of users similar to free VPNs, right?

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

I'd imagine there are ads or something, but I haven't seen them so I don't know