Illegal streaming service Jetflicks once boasted on its website that visitors could watch any TV show or movie “at any time.” Anywhere.” Now the five people behind the illegal streaming service are facing some serious prison terms.
A jury found Christopher Dallman, Douglas Corson, Felipe Garcia, Jared Gorecki and Peter Hooper guilty in federal court in Las Vegas on Friday of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. Dallman was also convicted of two counts of money laundering and three counts of misdemeanor copyright infringement for leading the Jetflicks operation, according to court documents and a court. .
Jetflicks has used computer scripts and programs to search the Internet for illegal copies of movies and TV shows and has published hundreds of thousands of illegal copies since 2007 from torrent sites and Usenet. The defendants created a catalog of illicit shows and movies larger than collections collected from streaming services including Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Amazon Prime, according to the Department of Justice.
Users can pay a subscription fee to access the site on almost any media streaming device using a web browser. Jetflicks claimed to “offer over 183,200 TV episodes and have over 37,000 subscribers,” according to It was introduced in the Eastern District of Virginia in 2019.
Dallman, the group’s leader, and his co-conspirators “made millions of dollars from broadcasting and distributing this catalog of stolen content,” the press release said.
At one point, Jetflicks operators and employees were making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from its subscription service. Dallman wrote in an online chat that his site made $750,000 in one year, according to the indictment.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) took notice of Jetflicks in 2012 and sent cease and desist letters to the site’s operators. Four years later, the FBI began its undercover work for the site by paying a six-month subscription. Undercover agents have recorded multiple cases of illegal downloads of offers such as Shameless, Ray Donovan, OA And SyFy’s 12 monkey In addition to access fees. Agents then traced those charges back to the defendants’ bank accounts, according to court records.
A date has not yet been set for the sentencing hearing. The Justice Department says Dallman could face up to 48 years in prison, while each of the remaining four defendants could face five years in prison.