YouTuber Jailed on Piracy Charges Has 57-Vehicle Collection Auctioned by Feds
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> His channel still exists, though a video hasn’t been posted in over two years. After an extensive investigation, the feds found Carrasquillo had amassed a massive $30 million fortune with a large-scale piracy scheme in which he was buying and reselling copyrighted material from cable tv. He was sentenced to five years in prison for “piracy of cable TV, access device fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of copyright infringement,” along with having to forfeit his millions and pay $15 million in restitution. Those millions helped pay for the car collection now going up for auction.
> Carrasquillo along with his co-defendants operated a large-scale internet protocol television (IPTV) piracy scheme in which they fraudulently obtained cable television accounts and then resold copyrighted content to thousands of their own subscribers, who could then stream or playback content.
They had the insight to somehow a amass a massive $30 million fortune with a large-scale piracy scheme but weren't smart enough to hide it or move somewhere without an extradition treaty?
Correct. Then proceeded to brag about it on YouTube. Some FBI agent saw it, called up the IRS, and the rest is history.
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For those liking seized cars auctioned... A french businessman was recently convicted for misappropriation of company assets and six cars were auctioned off in late june. Five of the six cars sold and four of them sold for one than one million EUR each.
All six were old, incredibly rare, Porsche (scroll down to see the six cars):
> Carrasquillo had amassed a massive $30 million fortune with a large-scale piracy scheme in which he was buying and reselling copyrighted material from cable tv.
Anyone have any idea what this means? How does someone sell copyrighted material from cable tv? Who would buy it?
Don’t know if this is what he was doing, but I know in LatAm people pay for some sketchy “lists”, that they then put into some streaming software and then are able to watch movies, series and sometimes even live sports
Have no idea if it’s the same thing that this guy was doing, but pretty sure all of that content from those lists is pirated
The lists are pretty cheap, maybe 10USD for 30day access, so people prefer to pay for those than for cable
A subscription to cable TV costs money.
He was offering that same subscription for less money.