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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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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 13 points 6 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.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Iapar@feddit.org 13 points 6 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.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Iapar@feddit.org -2 points 6 days ago

What does it matter for this conversation?