Feds Arrest 19-Year-Old Streaming Site Admin

Found on TorrentFreak on Thursday, 25 August 2011
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) have confirmed their agents arrested a New York man this week on suspicion of illegally streaming copyrighted sports events over the Internet.

"Today's arrest sends a clear message to website operators who mistakenly believe it's worth the risk to take copyrighted programming and portray it as their own," said ICE Director John Morton.

While ICE claim that Ali charged a fee to view streams, they say that in approximately a year he made just $6,000. A tap of the calculator reveals that at the $6 'cheap rate' just 1,000 'tickets' were sold, at $12 just 500 and at the top rate, around 240. If this is what constitutes one of the "most popular" sites, piracy is truly under control.

So the creators fail to secure their streams properly and get others arrested for using them. Nice to see that ICE has nothing better to do; or maybe the entertainment industry just pays better. After all, tax money isn't coming in as much as it did years ago.