5 Face Prison for Running TV Piracy Site Jetflicks

Five people behind the Jetflicks streaming pirate site face prison after their conviction last week following a trial before a federal court in Nevada, DOJ said. A jury found defendants Kristopher Dallmann, Douglas Courson, Felipe Garcia, Jared Jaurequi and Peter Huber guilty of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, Justice said. Moreover, the jury found Dallmann also guilty of two counts of money laundering by concealment and three counts of misdemeanor criminal copyright infringement. Dallmann faces up to 48 years in prison, while the other four could receive as much as five years each. It said a sentencing date has not yet been set. The indictment said Dallmann was the primary operator of the site, which trawled other pirate sites for illegal copies of TV episodes that Jetflicks then downloaded and hosted on its servers. The others helped Dallmann with management, customer service and billing operations and technical aspects, including coding, it said.