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The former operator of pirate IPTV service HeHeStreams has reached a plea agreement with the US government. After being indicted on several counts carrying sentences of up to 20 years each, Joshua Streit has admitted to a single cybercrime offense. In addition to a potential prison sentence, Streit will now forfeit $500K.
Traditional IPTV suppliers provide access to pirate streams by rebroadcasting captured content from their own servers. It’s bandwidth-intensive, expensive, and prone to issues. HeHeStreams eliminated most of these additional costs by using techniques to connect customers to genuine streams, offered by the sports broadcasters themselves, directly from their own servers.
The upsides could be found in rock-solid streams, low server costs, and many happy customers. The downsides proved more complicated for Streit.
HeHeStreams: Pirate IPTV Owner Admits Cybercrime, Forfeits $500K * TorrentFreak
Traditional IPTV suppliers provide access to pirate streams by rebroadcasting captured content from their own servers. It’s bandwidth-intensive, expensive, and prone to issues. HeHeStreams eliminated most of these additional costs by using techniques to connect customers to genuine streams, offered by the sports broadcasters themselves, directly from their own servers.
The upsides could be found in rock-solid streams, low server costs, and many happy customers. The downsides proved more complicated for Streit.
HeHeStreams: Pirate IPTV Owner Admits Cybercrime, Forfeits $500K * TorrentFreak