YouTuber Jailed For Large-Scale Cable Piracy Scheme (jalopnik.com) 20
Bill Omar Carrasquillo, better known by his YouTube name Omi In a Hellcat, has been arrested after the feds found Carrasquillo had amassed a $30 million fortune with a large-scale piracy scheme in which he was buying and reselling copyrighted material from cable TV. Jalopnik reports: 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.
[Road & Track reports Omi In A Hellcat's entire 57 vehicle collection is up for auction.] As of this writing, the auction features 32 cars and 25 bikes and off road vehicles. Despite his crimes, the man had decent taste in cars. There's good stuff to be had like.
[Road & Track reports Omi In A Hellcat's entire 57 vehicle collection is up for auction.] As of this writing, the auction features 32 cars and 25 bikes and off road vehicles. Despite his crimes, the man had decent taste in cars. There's good stuff to be had like.
Re: Who? (Score:4, Funny)
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I'm sure he'll appear on the next episode of World's Dumbest Criminals.
...he was buying and reselling copyrighted material from cable TV
WTF exactly was he "buying and selling"? Copies of TV shows? The same TV shows you can easily download from a gazillion places on the Internet? WTF??? World's Dumbest Criminal With The World's Dumbest Customers.
Re: Who? (Score:4, Informative)
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> WTF exactly was he "buying and selling"? Copies of TV shows? The same TV shows you can easily download from a gazillion places on the Internet? WTF??? World's Dumbest Criminal With The World's Dumbest Customers.
And how do you think they get on such "sites" in the first place?
The only difference was he was trying to sell them.
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Re:Fake News (Score:4, Interesting)
Seems like half his collection were stock Dodges and Jeeps. The obligatory scammer Lambo is present, some German luxo-sedans...only a few mildly interesting cars in the bunch, approximately none with immediately obvious interesting modifications (there's one Lambo with a wrap?), bike & offroad collection makes it look like he walked through some ordinary dealerships and bought whatever caught his fancy when he was bored.
I give his taste in cars 4/10 and I'm generously assuming he didn't buy the more interesting cars by accident.
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I don't see any Tesla's, so can't be that bad. Then again, his mum is going to miss her Caravan...
Clearly... (Score:5, Funny)
Re: Clearly... (Score:1)
In a Hellcat (Score:2)
What sort of Hellcat?
F6F grumman Hellcat (naval fighter that helped win the war in the Pacific)
M18 Hellcat (Fast tankdestroyer)
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I always assumed it was a 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat...
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Well, a Dodge Challenger Hellcat, anyways. It's not model year specific, though it's probably a highly limited version of the Dodge Challenger where you get put into a lottery to be able to buy and have to sign a purchase contract that says you cannot sell the thing for 6 months after you get it.
Five years for stealing from God Corporate. (Score:2)
I'm surprised (Score:2)
How did this man find $30M worth of cable TV programs? There's only advertisement on cable TV.