Illegal TV streamers, here's how the feds will hunt you downCitat:
When the US government decides to take down a website offering access to free TV streams over the Internet, it doesn't mess around. Newly unsealed court documents show that Brian McCarthy, the 32-year old alleged operator of Channelsurfing.net, got the complete treatment—investigators dug into his domain name registrar, his ISP, his Gmail account, his ad brokers, and the Texas driver's license database. They even sent a surveillance team to the Deer Park, Texas home where McCarthy lived with his parents.
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The government does not appear to file follow-up charges in many of these cases, content simply to seize the domains and hope the operator goes away. That's particularly true for the foreign cases, which would be hard to prosecute in any event. But when a website offers complete access to professional US football, basketball, and hockey games along with "ultimate fighting" and pro wrestling, and when the operator of that website can be found in Texas, uses US domain name registrars, US-based e-mail, and US-based money transfer (PayPal)—he's a fat target for the feds, and one who's easy to grab.
McCarthy has just been arrested for “criminal infringement of a copyright" even though his site only links to other content (that is, it doesn't host the infringing sports broadcasts itself). ICE doesn't care; McCarthy is still charged with "reproduction and distribution" over Channelsurfing.net, from which he allegedly made at least $90,000 over the last five years by framing the streamed content with his own ads.
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McCarthy could face up to five years in prison based on the single charge he currently faces.
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The government does not appear to file follow-up charges in many of these cases, content simply to seize the domains and hope the operator goes away. That's particularly true for the foreign cases, which would be hard to prosecute in any event. But when a website offers complete access to professional US football, basketball, and hockey games along with "ultimate fighting" and pro wrestling, and when the operator of that website can be found in Texas, uses US domain name registrars, US-based e-mail, and US-based money transfer (PayPal)—he's a fat target for the feds, and one who's easy to grab.
McCarthy has just been arrested for “criminal infringement of a copyright" even though his site only links to other content (that is, it doesn't host the infringing sports broadcasts itself). ICE doesn't care; McCarthy is still charged with "reproduction and distribution" over Channelsurfing.net, from which he allegedly made at least $90,000 over the last five years by framing the streamed content with his own ads.
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McCarthy could face up to five years in prison based on the single charge he currently faces.
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