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The trial of six defendants who allegedly operated the 'pirate' streaming service Jetflicks will now take place in July 2020. The delay is in response to Canadian authorities handing over masses of discovery data, including subscriber information and support tickets of the defunct service. The original request for information was made around 22 months ago. In August 2019, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) that eight men had been indicted by a grand jury for conspiring to violate criminal copyright law by running “two of the largest unauthorized streaming services in the United States.” announced All of the defendants – Kristopher Lee Dallmann, Darryl Julius Polo, Douglas M. Courson, Felipe Garcia, Jared Edward Jaurequi, Peter H. Huber, Yoany Vaillant, and Luis Angel Villarino – were charged with running Jetflix, a subscription-based streaming service that reportedly carried more than 183,200 TV episodes. Darryl Julius Polo, a former Jetflicks programmer, was additionally accused of launching and running iStreamitAll, a service carrying 18,479 TV episodes and 10,980 movies. On December 12, 2019, Polo to various copyright infringement and money laundering charges. The next day, former Jetflicks programmer Luis Angel Villarino pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. pleaded guilty The remaining six defendants were set to go on trial during December 2019 but following acknowledgment by the court that the case is unusually complex, it was pushed back to February 2020. Due to fresh developments in the investigation, however, the trial will now be pushed back to the summer. According to court documents filed by the US Government in December 2019, it was already in possession of a significant amount of discovery data (around 88 gigabytes) but following a March 2018 request under the US-Canada Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), law enforcement agencies in Canada had seized a great deal more. It took around 21 months but on December 16, 2019, the data was finally handed over to the Department of Justice. The volume of evidence is reportedly “enormous” and includes reports from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, subscriber information documents, a list of tickets and messages pertaining to subscribers, plus five forensic images of computers located at OVH, a hosting provider in Canada. Those five images are said to contain “well over” 2.3 million files which together total around 2.72 terabytes of data. The FBI reportedly took the evidence to the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section’s Cybercrime Lab in December 2019 which found information relating to Jetflicks, iStreamitAll and related services including SmackDownOnYou, Sincity Sports Cards, BlockBustersTV, Cardvision TV, and other entities and persons connected with the case. An estimated 186,000 emails were also discovered, some with Excel and Word attachments. According to the US Government, the overall trove is so extensive it’s 30 times larger than the discovery provided to the defendants to date. So, given the scale of the task ahead, the US Government advised a Virginia court that all parties would be best served by a further trial delay. “In our view, given that neither the government nor the defense has reviewed the data we just received from Canada, all parties would benefit from a continuance,” the filing reads. “The government needs to understand the nature of this new evidence for purposes of our case, and we believe that defense counsel has an obligation to their clients to review this new evidence too.” In closing, the Government requested that the trial be shifted to June 22, 2020. This delay was initially opposed by defendants Peter Huber and Yoany Vaillant but an agreement was later reached. As a result, in an order signed this week by District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III, the trial was rescheduled for July 14, 2020. The information provided by Canadian authorities may yet boost the US Government’s case against the Jetflicks defendants but its lawyers didn’t waste the opportunity to take a shot at Canada’s alleged poor conduct when it comes to dealing with pirate sites. “The Court may wonder why Jetflicks and iStreamItAll — which were both based in the United States — used a hosting provider in Canada for their operations,” a footnote reads. “According to the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), which represents over 3,200 U.S. companies producing and distributing materials protected by copyright laws throughout the world, among those engaged in piracy, Canada has had a ‘long-standing reputation as a safe haven for some of the most massive and flagrant Internet sites dedicated to the online theft of copyright material’.” While the same footnote also states that Canada “has made some progress” in recent years, it’s obvious that hosting Jetflicks in Canada didn’t save its operators from prosecution or from having their data seized and handed to US authorities. The related court filings can be found here and here (pdf) Originally published as “ Jetflicks Piracy Trial Delayed After Canada Hands Over Masses of Discovery Data ” with the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) license

Jetflick Piracy Trial Experiencing Delay After Canadian Govt Hands Over The Evidence

No matter where you look, the coronavirus has done grievous damage. It has disrupted the lives of millions of people in every way imaginable. It has also upended the global economy in a manner not seen since the Great Depression. At the time of this writing, millions are out of work, and companies are cutting costs in an effort to survive the crisis. That is, except for video game companies. They, unlike almost any other industry, are seeing growth like never before. It's because while general consumer spending cratered as the coronavirus forced wholesale shutdowns across the globe, it seemed that games were the one thing people were still spending money on. In the US alone, consumers in the first three months of the year, setting a new record. spent $10.86 billion At first glance, this seems like good news for the industry. A deeper look, however, reveals a more complex picture. Here's what seems to be going on inside the coronavirus-induced gaming industry boom and some insight into how long it might last. Time Spent Gaming is Rising Photo: Gorodenkoff / Adobe Stock In every part of the world where polling data is available, there's been a sharp rise in the amount of time that people are spending on video games. The biggest boost, as you might expect, came in the US, which has in time spent gaming. That reflects a population that's looking for ways to occupy their time during mandatory stay-at-home orders. The trouble with taking that number as universally good news, though, is the high likelihood that a substantial number of the people who now report playing games for the first time are probably going to revert to their typical non-gaming routines sooner or later. seen a 45% jump There's substantial anecdotal evidence to suggest that's the case. Media reports on the subject are filled with stories about , many of whom all but admit that they're only turning to for lack of anything better to do. And while they might squeeze in some game time here and there when things get back to normal, the likelihood of a steep drop-off in those engagement statistics is very high. That would seem to indicate that while the gaming industry's seeing benefits now, they won't be permanent. unlikely new gamers gaming Individual Game Sales Rising Photo: Anastassiya / Adobe Stock The one bit of underlying data that is unquestionably good news is that existing and new gamers aren't just picking up games they already have to play. As the topline numbers indicate, spending is rising. And that has pushed sales of new game releases higher than even their publishers could have imagined. Already, games like Nintendo's Animal Crossing and have crossed into cultural phenomenon territory. And at almost the same time, Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Warzone registered . have set sales records 60 million downloads in under two months Those are the kinds of results that make publishers salivate. But there's a caveat here, too. It's that the sudden shift to remote working has , which is preventing the industry from taking full advantage of the present conditions. And, the cancellation of signature events like E3 2020 has deprived the industry of its' biggest platform to build hype for upcoming titles. The bottom line is that the publishers who have benefitted have done so due to fortuitous timing, but the long-term fallout from release delays could turn out to be a bigger problem than anyone would have guessed. delayed quite a few new game releases In-Game Spending Down Photo: Gorodenkoff / Adobe Stock The other troubling trend that belies the narrative of a gaming industry boom is the fact that, while more people are spending more time playing games, the one thing they're not doing . That means that a pretty large share of publishers are seeing very little benefit from all of the added engagement and attention. And since such purchases are often where game studios derive their long-term revenue – one wonders if there's going to be a wave of gaming industry bankruptcies on the horizon. is making in-game purchases In the end, the confluence of all of these factors might be pointing to a very different outcome than the one the topline numbers suggest. Instead of a booming industry that's proving resilient against the coronavirus-induced economic downturn, what we might be seeing is a temporary boost in the bottom lines of a small handful of game publishers, to be followed by a wave of closures in the near future. If that's the case, the coronavirus would end up exacting just as big a toll on the gaming industry as it has on everything else. And it would leave behind an even more top-heavy industry that would be facing an uncertain future. If it happens, that would prove that when it comes to the coronavirus – no industry will be spared, and the early gaming industry gains may have only delayed the inevitable.

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