Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined - eviltoast
Five men were convicted for their part in operating Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal streaming services in the U.S., officials said.
  • DannyMac@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    Were they using cryptocurrency? Maybe that’s how they thought they could get away with it. The article doesn’t say

    • rufus@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      The article doesn’t talk much at all about all the interesting technical details.

      The press release talks about trouble with payment providers… So I suppose they accepted credit card payment.

      Maybe the court documents are publicly available if anyone is willing to dig them up in order to find out… I don’t think I’m that interested. If it’s a good story, maybe someone will do a documentery or podcast episode at some point. Would probably do for a “true crime” show.