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According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Yoany Vaillant, 43, worked as a computer programmer for Jetflicks, an online, subscription-based service headquartered in Las Vegas that permitted users to stream and, at times, download copyrighted television episodes without the permission of relevant copyright owners. At one point, Jetflicks claimed to have 183,285 different television episodes, far more than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, Amazon Prime, Disney+, or any other licensed streaming service. At Jetflicks, Vaillant worked directly with Kristopher Dallmann and Jared Jaurequi, who were convicted of criminal copyright offenses by a different jury earlier this year.

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[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.kya.moe 10 points 1 day ago

If you're gonna be a pirate for a living, at least get a ship.

[–] lakemalcom10@lemm.ee 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

According to his resume, Vaillant had 15 years of computer programming experience when he started at Jetflicks and knew 27 computer languages.

Hahaha

[–] No1@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh, yeah I know 27 programming languages.

What? Haha, no, I can't program them.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How dumb do you have to be to think that was a good idea?

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

And he did it In the United States. Bro what were you thinking?

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, making money from piracy is not ok. If you're not paying the copyright holders, it's unfair to make people pay you.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's fine to be paid for labour eg programming.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Right. Or acting or filming or editing or...

[–] Iapar@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those people already got payed before being layed off.

At that point all the people getting money are the people who bullied their way to holding the rights for the IP.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where do you think the money to pay them came from?

[–] Iapar@feddit.org -1 points 1 day ago

What does it matter for this conversation?