You know those warnings they show before movies before they play that everyone ignores? They take those really seriously, and you could really end up in jail.
That’s what Youtuber Omi, aka Bill Omar Carrasquillo, in a Hellcat, is finding out right now.
He’s facing 514 years in prison for piracy after he and two friends, Jesse Gonzales and Michael Barone, illegally sold copy-written content to people who subscribed to his streaming website from March of 2016 to November 2019.
The streaming service netted them $30 million. They also have to forfeit almost $35 million, dozens of properties, cars, and motorcycles. Omi’s lawyer says he’s falsely accused, saying that he tapped into a new unregulated industry and succeeded. He also says that when others do it, they are seen as pioneers, and the government didn’t think he was smart enough to pull this off because of his background legally.
The lawyer has a point. The government picks and chooses when they want to enforce rules on certain people. Look at the people who stormed the capitol. They aren’t facing up to 514 years in prison. Which crime was worse, though?
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