> His channel still exists, though a video hasn’t been posted in over two years. After an extensive investigation, the feds found 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. He was sentenced to five years in prison for “piracy of cable TV, access device fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of copyright infringement,” along with having to forfeit his millions and pay $15 million in restitution. Those millions helped pay for the car collection now going up for auction.
All six were old, incredibly rare, Porsche (scroll down to see the six cars):
Anyone have any idea what this means? How does someone sell copyrighted material from cable tv? Who would buy it?
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
He was offering that same subscription for less money.