Illegal television and movie streaming services Jetflicks and iStreamItAll (ISIA) once boasted of offering over 180,000 and 115,000 pirated television episodes, respectively, on their services, making them two of the largest illegal streaming sites in the world.
Now, the eight men behind these unauthorized domains have been charged with violating federal criminal copyright law which has resulted in the loss of "millions of dollars by television program and motion picture copyright owners," according to a statement released by the Department of Justice.
Jetflicks, an online subscription-based service that permitted users to stream and download television shows, allegedly reproduced tens of thousands of copyrighted programs and distributed them via their service to their paid subscribers across the U.S.
But at one point, one of the eight men who ran Jetflicks, Darryl Julius Polo, left to start his own competing site called iStreamItAll. Just like Jetflicks, ISIA provided content for a regular subscription fee which included over 100,000 television episodes and more than 10,000 movies. The site even boldly proclaimed that it had more content available than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Amazon Prime.