Thirsk Man hat über einen illegalen Streaming -Betrieb von 1 Mio. Pfund inhaftiert
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39zwwg3nzwo
Von LOTDT
Thirsk Man hat über einen illegalen Streaming -Betrieb von 1 Mio. Pfund inhaftiert
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39zwwg3nzwo
Von LOTDT
35 Kommentare
„It’s estimated that this criminal activity contributes to over 80,000 job losses each year alone.“
What an absolute load of shite
Damn, must have been illegally streaming to the Rieklings in the mead hall.
> Det Con Daryl Fryatt, from the PIPCU, said: „Illegal streaming weakens the creative industries by diverting money away from legitimate businesses and into the hands of criminals like Stephen Woodward.
I dunno mate it seems the current streaming era and milking franchises to death is doing that
Three years? Come on now. Yes, seize the money and perhaps give him some community service but banging him up is a massive waste of resources.
Those who can’t afford streaming services aren’t going to rush to subscribe lol they just pirate on different site
> In November 2020, Stephen Woodward was arrested by British Transport Police at King’s Cross Station on suspicion of money laundering, after a staff member at Thirsk Station saw him place a carrier bag behind a grit bin and then board a train to London.
The staff member checked the contents of the bag and, upon finding it contained £20,000, alerted police.
Leaving 20 grand behind a bin at a train station WTF
Who pays for pirated online content? There are zillions of free sites. No need to buy or pay for anything. I guess this guy was good at selling re-direction USB sticks or something to digitally illiterate people unable to find the free sites.
Pedophiles, the bane of society, get less time.
He’s helped out thousands of households keep their bills down and provided an actual affordable service for people more than likely living just above the breadline.
Yeah, it’s against the law. He’s pocketed a few quid from it, but has he really done any harm. Plenty families can’t afford the streaming services on offer, I hope he gets early release and can still enjoy some of the fruits of his labour.
Good on him, and I hope everyone who bought into it made the most of it as well. All these massive companies ripping our eyes out with continued price increases. Will they drop the pricing now they’ve got this Robin Hood banged up? Will they shite.
Laughable honestly
3 years for streaming footy, but commit a violent or sexual offence and you’re all good just don’t do it again. Make it make sense.
And the point of imprisonment for this person is… what? We complain about lacking prison spaces and then we have this
Hopefully he’s squirrelled away a decent amount for when he gets out.
>He would then exchange the money into cryptocurrency, convert it back to flat currency and deposit it across 23 bank accounts, in order to disguise where the cash came from
What’s flat currency? I think they mean fiat?
Companies squeezing every single penny they can out of consumers left right and centre – nothing done.
Guy marginally affects those profits – longer prison sentence than paedophiles.
The world really is on its arse.
3 years jail for what ?? Damaging the profits of greedy sky/netflix etc …multi billion dollar companies…
Yet rapists..sex offenders and other horrific criminals get lesser sentences …
Two tier policing at its finest .
The answer is simple….. remove the adds and make it cheaper so everyone can afford it. I bet if each were say 3-4 £/$ more and more people would subscribe but the streaming companies are greedy with each one costing around 8-9 £/$ each a month with adds so people resort to piracy. It’s a byproduct of their own greed really.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nhs-boss-lied-classics-degree-130000-job-suspended-sentence-090404929.html
To me this is more serious ..wilful intent to defraud the NHS ..
£260,000
Suspended sentence !
Stream sky..jail !
Until the UK has a cheaper way to watch F1 i’ll continue to sail the seas. Fuck you, Sky.
Good man. Probably had better customer support than most streaming services.
Meanwhile, PDF files caught with 1000’s of images of abuse receive suspended sentences.
What a fucking joke of a Justice system! [https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/25034166.hemel-paedophile-given-suspended-sentence-indecent-images/](https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/25034166.hemel-paedophile-given-suspended-sentence-indecent-images/)
A dodgey stick subscription costs £60 for the year, for absolutely everything. Netflix, disney +, prime video, sky sports/movies etc.etc. You even get american live tv.
A couple of subscription services or packages through sky or whoever else will set you back £60 a month if not more.. fuck these greedy companies 🏴☠️
Thank you brave police for cracking down on this and not
Grooming gangs
Rampant petty theft
Antisocial behaviour
You’re true heroes, a company could’ve lost some money!
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Getting busted because he was leaving sacks of cash behind bins in railway stations seems tremendously old school for a hi tech piracy operation – and also immensely dumb
It’s not quite a moral panic, but it’s up there with the “you wouldn’t steal a car” adverts from the early 2000s.
He was dumb enough to get himself caught with those money drops, but the idea that he cost 80,000 jobs is laughable. How much tax do Netflix and Amazon pay? They cancel all kinds of programming on a whim.
Will this deter people with such a sentence? Probably not either, especially when companies are clamping down on password sharing and upping prices and removing stuff from their platforms too.
The same bullshit excuses that they used to jail mob guys for when they were running numbers. Now the government has the monopoly on betting and reaps in millions, it’s all ok.
„What you in for mate ?“
„Oh Just Rape and Murder….You ?“
„Fulham vs Bournemouth“
Meanwhile the government is pushing AI and allowing AI to use pirated material for learning because fuck those creatives they pretend to care so much about here.
Sky should be investigated for ripping off the general public
There coming for you next… we know you sang happy birthday without licensing it… we are going to use the police to raid your home and seize your money, are going to give that money to intellectual property rights holders? No fuck are we that moneys for us…
Why is the tax man not sending him down for 5 to 10 for tax avoidance? A million pounds at 45% has got to be worth that.
Go have a read about how complicated his business was. I guarantee you this guy could’ve made $1 million legitimately if he ran a normal business with the amount of fricking work and problems he solved to make that a success.
He didn’t have an easy way to market the product. He was still successful,, like how the hell do you even find customers for that sort of thing not easy. And then convincing those customers to buy gift cards which you turn into cryptocurrency and then distribute across 23 bank accounts which you set up with false identities you purchased off the dark web. And then funnel it all into cryptocurrency and then back to Fiat. And then money launder it.
That is way too much work for a criminal . That’s a bloody entrepreneur.
Damn, it would be a shame if people learned how pirate themselves if they were relying on this guys service.
Luckily there isn’t some [megathread](https://reddit.com/r/Piracy/w/megathread?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) that explained how to do this.
Yarrr
Good we got this absolute criminal off the streets, I feel safer already. Especially with all the newly released actual prisoners who committed not as bad crimes such as theft, gbh, fraud and drug dealing.
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As usual, there’s no BBC comment section for an article like this. Cowards.
He alone did not contribute to the loss of 80,000 jobs.
That’s blatent propoganda to label all pirates as evil. Reality is that most pirates aren’t evil, they just can’t afford to access said media.