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Computer Programmer Convicted for Helping Run One of the Biggest Illegal Television Show Streaming Services in the United States (www.justice.gov)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh, yeah I know 27 programming languages.

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

What does it matter for this conversation?