Mike Heuer , UPI; Cuban citizen convicted in U.S. streaming piracy scheme
"A federal jury in Las Vegas found Yoany Vaillant guilty of conspiring to commit criminal copyright infringement for his work on behalf of illegal streamer Jetflicks.
Vaillant, 43, is a Cuban citizen and knows 27 computer programming languages, which he used to streamline the subscription-based but illegal Jetflicks content for its subscribers who were located throughout the United States, the Department of Justice announced in a news release Friday...
Jetflicks is headquartered in Las Vegas and claimed to have 183,285 copyrighted episodes of television programming, which is much more than Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and any other streaming services.
Prosecutors provided evidence showing Vaillant and seven co-conspirators scoured pirate sites located around the world to access and download its extensive library of streaming titles without obtaining permission or paying respective copyright holders...
"The vast scale of Jetflicks' piracy affected every significant copyright owner of a television program in the United States," the DOJ said.
The illegal streaming caused "millions of dollars of losses to the U.S. television show and streaming industries," the agency said.
Vaillant was among eight defendants indicted in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia in 2019."
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