Houston-Area Man Popped for Internet Piracy, Channelsurfing.net

[JonLP24]

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But the battle is still being fought by other corners, and it's landed one Brian McCarthy in federal lockup. A resident of Deer Park, TX, a Houston suburb, McCarthy has been arrested and charged with copyright infringement and theft of intellectual property.

McCarthy had been operating the Channelsurfing.net site, one of many streaming sites that have been shut down by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations Unit in recent weeks.

Owner of the site since 2005, McCarthy made more than $90,000 from online advertising from the site, and is looking at as many as five years in prison. The Southern District of New York's Complex Frauds Unit will be tackling the case.

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However, McCarthy also offered Ultimate Fighting Championship matches, which are regularly offered on Pay Per View and bring in about $450 million in revenue to UFC. That was a mistake; UFC has been very aggressive in fighting on line piracy of its matches, having reached settlements with more than 500 business and individuals to stop showing its stuff on the Internet.

http://www.sandiego.com/news/houston-area-man-popped-for-internet-piracy-channelsurfing.net

[villager]

1. any other issues aside, I want to know how the fuck this is the business of "Homeland Security?"

Or is it just copping to the fact that the main business of the corporate police state is... protecting business?

[upi402]

2. ^+1,000

:hide:

[leftstreet]

3. +1

[cutlassmama]

4. they are now the Gestapo. Scary, scary stuff.

[jp11]

5. Nope, that is an 'unintended benefit', got to do 'something' when you have

these people on the payroll, these laws letting you do just about anything in search of America's enemies/squashing out fear.

[joshcryer]

7. DHS has absorbed many facets of enforcement, it's the third largest branch of government.

It's like some sort of mild fascist police state when you look at how many departments it covers.

[joshcryer]

6. $18k a year. I bet that hardly covered hosting the site.