A federal court in Las Vegas convicted five suspects of running one of the largest illegal television streaming services in the U.S. since 2007 and raking in millions of dollars at the expense of television program copyright owners, prosecutors announced Thursday.
The court convicted Kristopher Dallmann, Douglas Courson, Felipe Garcia, Jared Jaurequi and Peter Huber, of “conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Nevada. The court also judged Dallman guilty of “two counts of money laundering by concealment and three counts of misdemeanor criminal copyright infringement,” the statement revealed.
The suspects ran Jetflicks, an online, subscription-based streaming service that “reproduced hundreds of thousands of copyrighted television episodes” sourced from pirate websites using automation, prosecutors…