5 men have been found guilty of making millions from illegal IPTV services. The person believed to be the creator of these faces an exemplary prison sentence.
It is not good to manage a pirate IPTV service Right now. The hunt led by rights holders is intensifying day by day and the message is clear: the time for laxity is over. People found guilty of providing TV channels, films and series illegally for money now face fines.fines and of significant prison sentences. We remember the creators of Flawless in the United Kingdom, sentenced to between 4 and 11 years of incarceration. Or the 18 million dollars that these pirates must pay.
Impressive figures, but in terms of time spent behind bars, it is far from being the record. A man named Kristopher Dallmann might well learn it the hard way. With 7 accomplices, he was accused in 2019 of having violated the US copyright law through the creation and management of two IPTV services, Jetflicks And iStreamitAll. This year, the sites offered more films and series than Netflix or Amazon Prime. Three of the accused plead guilty hoping for lighter sentences, but the other five, including Dallmann, go as far as trial. Bad idea.
This man faces a very long prison sentence for creating a famous illegal IPTV service
The defense failed to convince the jury of the defendants’ innocence, and for good reason: the latter did not hesitate to take the investigators for idiots. David Sundberg, deputy director at the FBI, explains that “When complaints from copyright holders and problems with payment service providers threatened to derail their illicit multimillion-dollar business, the defendants tried to disguising Jetflicks as an aviation entertainment company“.
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They explained that Jetflicks was originally used to convert DVDs so their owners could watch them on planes, but as this was not making enough money, they focused on providing an illegal IPTV service. The 5 accused were found guilty and 4 of them risk up to 5 years in prison. Kristopher Dallmann, considered the creator of the sites, could face 48 years behind bars. The final sentence will be pronounced soon.
Source: TorrentFreak