Matrix Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Two Uruguayan operators of the popular Latin American pirate streaming site have been sentenced to three years and four months prison each. The man and woman, who are a couple, were arrested earlier this year following a complaint from various movie studios. Roughly $500,000 in seized criminal assets will be transferred to the Uruguayan Government. With over a million visitors per day, Pelispedia.tv was one of the most popular streaming sites in Latin America. While users saw the site as an ideal service to enjoy free entertainment, the movie industry approached it as a major threat. Following a referral from Hollywood’s MPAA, it also appeared on the radar of the US Trade Representative, which branded Pelispedia a notorious pirate site in April. By then, rightsholders and enforcement authorities already had their eyes focused on the site’s alleged operators, a couple from Uruguay. The two, who are referred to by their initials J.A.G.R. and M.J.H.G., were tracked for weeks and eventually, the curtain fell. Following collaborative efforts from Interpol, rightsholders, and Uruguayan authorities, the two were arrested in May. The alleged operators are charged with copyright-related crimes as well as money laundering. Soon after, Pelispedia went offline. The case in question was referred to an Uruguayan court specialized in organized crime, which handed down its verdict a few days ago. The couple was sentenced to three years and four months of jail time. In addition, roughly US$500,000 worth of previously-seized assets will be transferred to the Government, as is customary under local money laundering law. Pelispedia The investigation into the site was launched after complaints from the Motion Picture Association and several Hollywood studios. Anti-piracy coalition ACE and MPAA Chairman Charles Rivkin are very happy with the swiftly resolved case. “We applaud the work of our partners at Interpol and law enforcement agencies in Uruguay for the successful legal action against a major Latin American piracy organization, and thank the court for acting swiftly to stop this criminal network,” Rivkin comments. Virginia Cervieri, the lawyer who represents the Motion Picture Association and the other complainants, previously said that domain name WHOIS data was the starting point of their investigation. While the registrant details were later updated, an earlier version has already put them on the right track. “In these cases, information is not widely available, but it was discovered that, according to the domain WHOIS, an Uruguayan national was the holder of the Pelispedia domain. We then began to investigate if the person was real and if the data provided coincided with reality, which it did,” Cervieri told Redaccion. The details led to a 35-year-old man, J.A.G.R., who launched Pelispedia after another popular streaming site, Cuevana, went down in 2014. Together with his wife M.J.H.G (34), he reportedly earned between $4,000 and $10,000 per month. While Pelispedia is not coming back, the site’s demise has left a gaping hole that other pirate sites are eager to fill. Following the shutdown earlier this year, sites such as pelisplus.co, pelisplus.to and repelisgo.com have seen a healthy boost in traffic. VIEW: Original Article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two Uruguayan operators of the popular Latin American pirate streaming site have been sentenced to three years and four months prison each. The man and woman, who are a couple, were arrested earlier this year following a complaint from various movie studios. Roughly $500,000 in seized criminal assets will be transferred to the Uruguayan Government. With over a million visitors per day, Pelispedia.tv was one of the most popular streaming sites in Latin America. While users saw the site as an ideal service to enjoy free entertainment, the movie industry approached it as a major threat. Following a referral from Hollywood’s MPAA, it also appeared on the radar of the US Trade Representative, which branded Pelispedia a notorious pirate site in April. By then, rightsholders and enforcement authorities already had their eyes focused on the site’s alleged operators, a couple from Uruguay. The two, who are referred to by their initials J.A.G.R. and M.J.H.G., were tracked for weeks and eventually, the curtain fell. Following collaborative efforts from Interpol, rightsholders, and Uruguayan authorities, the two were arrested in May. The alleged operators are charged with copyright-related crimes as well as money laundering. Soon after, Pelispedia went offline. The case in question was referred to an Uruguayan court specialized in organized crime, which handed down its verdict a few days ago. The couple was sentenced to three years and four months of jail time. In addition, roughly US$500,000 worth of previously-seized assets will be transferred to the Government, as is customary under local money laundering law. Pelispedia The investigation into the site was launched after complaints from the Motion Picture Association and several Hollywood studios. Anti-piracy coalition ACE and MPAA Chairman Charles Rivkin are very happy with the swiftly resolved case. “We applaud the work of our partners at Interpol and law enforcement agencies in Uruguay for the successful legal action against a major Latin American piracy organization, and thank the court for acting swiftly to stop this criminal network,” Rivkin comments. Virginia Cervieri, the lawyer who represents the Motion Picture Association and the other complainants, previously said that domain name WHOIS data was the starting point of their investigation. While the registrant details were later updated, an earlier version has already put them on the right track. “In these cases, information is not widely available, but it was discovered that, according to the domain WHOIS, an Uruguayan national was the holder of the Pelispedia domain. We then began to investigate if the person was real and if the data provided coincided with reality, which it did,” Cervieri told Redaccion. The details led to a 35-year-old man, J.A.G.R., who launched Pelispedia after another popular streaming site, Cuevana, went down in 2014. Together with his wife M.J.H.G (34), he reportedly earned between $4,000 and $10,000 per month. While Pelispedia is not coming back, the site’s demise has left a gaping hole that other pirate sites are eager to fill. Following the shutdown earlier this year, sites such as pelisplus.co, pelisplus.to and repelisgo.com have seen a healthy boost in traffic.
straycat19 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Seems like a variation on Whack-a-Mole where only the cream of the crop that floats to the top gets whacked. That seems to be working fairly well, at times. Let the insignificant sites continue till one gets big and then WHACK IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 2 hours ago, straycat19 said: Seems like a variation on Whack-a-Mole where only the cream of the crop that floats to the top gets whacked. That seems to be working fairly well, at times. Let the insignificant sites continue till one gets big and then WHACK IT! Most sites i been using still up and running for many years , how is anymore than a mere inconvenience for Spanish users ? For English users as myself it didn't effect me at all. For the MPAA is was just luck of the cards is all that site owners was in Uruguay witch is claims to be a democracy in South America . It has a puppet government put in by the USA after 150 years of being ruled by right winged governments it's about the closest thing to the USA you will find in South America . The rest of Latin America is full of organized crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking, corruption, and money laundering. Its so bad millions of them try to cross the US border every year they have way worse problems than Movie Piracy there . About one in three Latin Americans is enjoying pirated cable https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-03-15/about-one-three-latin-americans-enjoying-pirated-cable Newer article here they have a $4.8 billion dollar pirated cable black market there http://www.alianza.tv/1.0/alianza-report-pay-tv-signal-piracy-in-latin-america-and-caribbean/ They still dealing with Black Box Piracy and street piracy there on a mass scale . You don't even have to have the internet to be a pirate in Latin America it's rampant offline as well as online and still if they could ever control it they still would never see no money off all those poor people there , you can't draw blood out of a turnip. Whack-a-Mole never does a bit of good . Piracy is community maintained so a site can go offline and 2 or 3 will get together and make a new site . It happens every time public and private sites . The current #1 torrent site is a clone of a site that settled with MPAA that shut down. Even if it gets took out it still won't effect me because i don't use it and it will just be a mere inconvenience for it's users. Plenty of other groups to take there place. Piracy has always been and adapt with the times or die kind of thing every since Napster got shut down . They played Whack-a-Mole for years with P2P clients and closed many, but the ones still in use today proved to be resilient against them . So now they go after mere websites and there owners . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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