Protecting Lawful Streaming Act
10 years in prison for illegal streaming? It’s in the Covid-19 relief bill from r/technology
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/22/tech/illegal-streaming-felony-covid-relief-bill/index.html
The law specifies that it doesn’t apply to people who use illegal streaming services or “individuals who access pirated streams or unwittingly stream unauthorized copies of copyrighted works.”
Rather, it’s focused on “commercial, for-profit streaming piracy services” that make money from illegally streaming copyrighted material.
Last year, the Department of Justice charged two computer programmers from Las Vegas for illegal pirating thousands of hours of television shows from Netflix (NFLX) and Hulu and streaming them on websites called iStreamItAll and Jetflicks. One man admitted to earning more than $1 million from his piracy operations.