You can buy a Firestick from Amazon, and by following instructions on YouTube, you can access proprietary streaming content like HBO, Showtime and the NFL channel. You probably didn’t realize that it is illegal to do that.

The ever entertaining Brady Judd held a news conference last week where he announced that they had arrested 4 people for selling Firesticks that had been modified to do this. Based on consumer complaints received from shoppers at the International Market World Flea Market near Auburndale, Polk County Sheriff’s Office detectives began an investigation related to the sale of electronic devices marketed as a way to steal internet communications services.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLncBSR4Sy8

According to Sheriff Judd, if you use a Firestick in this manner, you are committing a misdemeanor, although enforcement would be highly unlikely, If you are selling these devices, it’s a felony, and if they weren’t charging sales tax, that adds a whole new area of problems.

Visibility was the key to their downfall. They were advertising openly at the flea market, and in one lady’s case, in her store. I suspect they never suspected they were committing a crime.

Alexander Truluck focuses his practice as a criminal defense attorney in Clearwater, Palm Harbor, Largo, Dunedin and the Tampa Bay area.

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