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by syspec 983 days ago
> Carrasquillo had amassed a massive $30 million fortune with a large-scale piracy scheme in which he was buying and reselling copyrighted material from cable tv.

Anyone have any idea what this means? How does someone sell copyrighted material from cable tv? Who would buy it?
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nico 983 days ago
Don’t know if this is what he was doing, but I know in LatAm people pay for some sketchy “lists”, that they then put into some streaming software and then are able to watch movies, series and sometimes even live sports

Have no idea if it’s the same thing that this guy was doing, but pretty sure all of that content from those lists is pirated

The lists are pretty cheap, maybe 10USD for 30day access, so people prefer to pay for those than for cable

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djaro 983 days ago
A subscription to cable TV costs money.

He was offering that same subscription for less money.

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