Over time, piracy has taken a different direction, and precisely because no one buys series or movies in disc format anymore, many download them on the web, since there are already easy methods like streaming pages that offer them. Services in exchange for viewing user advertisements. And that’s led countries like the United States to take action on the matter, because even though some may not believe it, losing those potential customers makes a big difference.
As noted, the government has not arrested anyone except those responsible for the website. JeffClicks, which could be considered the most popular pirate streaming platform in that part of the world, since it had a fairly extensive catalog. In a few words, it has compiled all the contents of different companies viz Netflix, Max, Disney Plus And some others who offer their series and movies separately to the users.
It is noteworthy that in this case, the site people directly profited from the content in addition to the ads inside, since they charged approximately $10 dollars in monthly fees, but in return they had 183,200 television episodes of all kinds. Inside are hundreds of movies including series and premieres that arrived on the first day. The party in question was Christopher Dalman, Douglas Courson, Felipe Garcia, Jared Jaurequi, and Peter Huber.
It goes without saying that four of those involved will be sentenced to 4 years in prison. For its part, Christopher Dallman, in addition to being convicted on other charges, was convicted of money laundering, which increased his sentence to 48 years. They are said to have caused millions of dollars in losses while generating huge profits for the major Hollywood studios, although the exact amount of losses or benefits received by the service have not been specified.
As is clear, at this point the page is already inactive.
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Author’s Note: I remember there was a similar service here in Mexico called Cuevana, but it seems they’ve already retired after being shut down several times. However, they did not charge more than the advertising portion.