The fact that they suggested +500 years of jail just like is nothing tells you that cable companies have way too much power and copyright infrigment is a stronger crime than murder in the US.
For real, what's the point of jailing a non violent criminal other than to send the message that you should never fuck with corporations ? In world that made sense they'd strip him of the money he stole, pay a fine and set him free.
@@damikey18he spent 10 years training to be a ninja only to dress as a bat to fight crime in a city. He's not the most sane person out there let's just say 😂
@@JennyNobody unfortunately potential losses regardless of how many would of actually subscribed are considered when it comes to copyright infringement like this but your point still stands that it was chump change to them and this was just a means of teaching him a lesson
@@Blackhomeking12 it makes me sick that that’s a thing mega corps can benefit from. It’s an important rule for the little guys… but the way the system is set up it just give even more power to corps who have no right to be as all-encompassing as they are.
There are people that have done horrible, UNSPEAKABLE things and have gotten less time/punishment than this guy….and that’s if they go to jail at all. If this doesn’t convince you the law cares more about corporations than people nothing will
@@calebm9000well there are lots of great streaming websites who have everything and you don’t need to pay a single penny for them, because there are good people out there who believe in freedom and spread it for others!
Hello Mutahar. Im a Pole and I've been watching polish youtube for the 12, maybe 13 years. There's a huge drama here, called "Pandora Gate". Its something like EDP's situation, but it has a much larger scale. Polish youtubers, who raised the whole generation suddenly appeared as monsters. I think you should cover it in your video. I know its not in english language, but I think you should make a video about it. Edit: A Little bit of explanation: Stuart Burton (he's British, but he speaks in polish), known as PolskiPingwin (polish penguin) talked with a lot of underage girls (age of consent in Poland is 15). He wrote disguisting, sexual messages to his 14, sometimes even 13 year old fans. He even met with some of them in his house, hotels and other places. Video about him opened "pandora's box" and youtubers started to destroy each other, just to take the attention from them. It all happened a couple years ago. It appears that many of his youtube friend knew about his behaviour, and some of them even have done the same disguisting things. Many polish politicians became interested in this topic, mainly because parliamentary elections will begin in 15 october.
Yh alot of those pirating services give you better quality for less money than cable services. No wonder they want to give him 5 fucking centuries of prison time
All jokes aside, he should be left alone in regards to all this once he's out. He didnt hurt anyone outside of insured corporations. He'll have served his debt to society, and should honestly be allowed back on the platform. Document his journey of coming back from all this. Love watching a redemption arc. His heart holds good, you can see it in his eyes. Phoenixes are friggin cool.
Omi is a Philly local legend. Never hurt anyone and although committed tax fraud, he never hurt anyone and sold cheap cable to those who obviously couldn’t afford it.
If you can't afford it, just pay for streaming. Also if he was actually humble he wouldn't be flexing that many cars, but rather would do something for his community with all that money
Except if you are a big corporation. So basically most villains will be fucked except the Lex Luthor type. Microsoft actually uses lobbyists to defund the IRS so they can't go after them due to lack of funds, look it up.
@@nickyiscrazy Don't crucify me, but I haven't listened through Madvillany all the way through yet, though I plan on doing it. I use RYM a lot, so that's why I know about mf doom in the first place. That site is the frickin best
If you ever need proof that the U.S justice system is screwed, just remember that Omi got sent to prison for giving people television access, while EDP and Chris-chan are still roaming free.
Not only is Chris Chan free he was released from jail. So they reviewed the case and his mental state and decided "yeah he's fine to walk amongst the public."
Well there is legal action being taken rn against edp by a TH-camr named Skeeter jean But the first time edp was caught there was nothing that could be done legally as the sting was fucked up from the start as well as not having any police on site
I knew a dude who was a former career criminal. One thing he said will always stick with me. "If you do it once or twice, you might not get caught, but if you're doing this for a living, you WILL get caught. It's not "if", it's "when". And when you get caught, they're gonna take all your stuff, put you in jail, and when you get out, you're gonna be right back at square one. Except now, cops aren't gonna treat you like a regular person. They're gonna treat you like a criminal."
@@ShwappaJ yep,sounds about right,especially with multi million,potentially even billion dollar corporations existing,they can just put people in jail for the rest of their life,while peices of shit who actually deserve it,get put in jail for less than 10 years ik that is a crime too but jesus christ
I will die on the hill of believing that if a million+ people just up and dicided to stop paying the IRS overnight, there's nothing they could do about it because there isn't enough cops, cells, or jails to be able to arrest that many people.
Okay. Die on that hill. Enjoy it when literally everything grinds to a complete halt. Schools? Oops. Those are gone. Medicare? Poof. Social Security? What’s that? Oh, the sizable contingent of citizens who work for government agencies in all manner of jobs? Well, they’re out of work, and oopsies, no unemployment for them. Infrastructure to maintain roads, power lines, phone lines? None of that, thanks. NASA? Had to shut ‘er down. Gonna see a big dip in college enrollment and donations or grants to artists and scientists. Tax money gets funneled into a lot of places and programs, not just to feed the (admittedly bloated) bureaucratic staff and military. Shutting it down is not the answer. Holding everyone accountable for their due share is.
@yakimator9679 true, but the US is the only one that deals with the IRS specifically. I believe everyone in all countries should fight back against taxation, but I was mainly talking about the US.
Or just all of the population, not like other countries are going to help us imprison our own people. Especially not Russia or China, they hate us entirely.
Omi is a genuine dude who has given abck tot he community, charity and more many times imho. He really just found a loophole, and sadly got penalized for using said loophole. But compared to the amount of people whove committed MUCH worse crimes, id say he definitely got the unlucky end of the stick. Not excusing what he did, but in actuality, i didnt think he deserved or needed to serve actual time for what he did. Him just losing his assets, while paying back would have sufficed. He essentially gave people access to tv, but of course the way he went about it was the issue.
Convictions are in the high 90% because they include all plea deals as convictions. It is a conviction, but not indicative of their actual trial win rate(which is much lower).
I hope they let him off easy with minimum punishment. This way he acknowledges that it could have been much worse. He seems like a reasonable guy. I'm sure he wants to help others not make the same mistake . I wish em the best of luck
I have a feeling they will. I really can't imagine him being locked up for life for a completely non-violent crime. ....but then again, the justice system here sure can be "strange"
@@dom2760 Hmm… Ruby Franke with her child abuse? Multiple YTers like EDP, Miranda Sings, Miniladd, and various others under allegation of pedophilia solicitation attempts? The Paul brothers and all the NFT/crypto scamming they’ve done? Just to name a few examples.
Omi doubled down on the bad ideas. Making a business out of illegal TV broadcasting, combined with living such a high profile lifestyle, is only marginally below not giving Uncle Sam a cut on the list of bad ideas. The media cartels won't let that slide.
Now if only government put the same amount of effort into investigating guys like EDP. It's like law enforcement only exists to protect profitability and not the public or something.....
And when people do it them selves like catch a predator TH-camrs, it’s usually not really taken seriously by police and they usually just kinda brush it off.
Omi is a hero who saved people $100+ a month. Given how many consumers he had, he saved the population at least $100M in cable bills. He also famously used to give delivery guys and waitresses $10,000 tips all the time. This story is a perfect example of how legality and morality are not the same thing. Truly a beautiful person.
Agreed. Like yeah, I don't agree with him essentially flaunting it with all those super cars, but at the end of the day it was probably the most tame crime he could've committed, especially when compared to a lot of the crimes other youtubers commit. Bro didn't deserve a suggested 500 year sentence or even a 5 1/2 year sentence. 5 months maximum I would say
No wonder they have such a high conviction rate. 5 years if he pleads guilty, up to 514 years if he tries to fight the 2 years worth of insurmountable evidence. He at least chose that wisely.
5 years isn’t that bad, and you keep a good amount of money. He is gonna walk away from this making an actual profit just not nearly the profit he would have laid low
It’s a high conviction rate because they only charge you once they have mountains of evidence. Federal agency will gather piles and piles of evidence, if you get caught, you screwed. This ain’t your local sheriff.
You know what's funny? I'm not even a US citizen (I live on the opposite end of the continent), but the moment he said "3 letter agency you just don't mess with" I instantly knew it was the IRS xD
12:00 I paused Muta to find the Omi video in question and... Omi retroactively unwittingly memed himself by having a smoke detector that needs its battery replaced. The Universe truly has one of the senses of humor of all time.
“A service.” Well, that’s one way to refer to stealing something, then illegally selling that something to others and doing so frequently enough and with enough profit margin that you have an entire Italian exotic car dealership on your property, while stealing a video game’s logo for your marketing, then pretending that money doesn’t exist when tax time comes.
He ripped off people who are ripping everyone else off, and made accessible services that provided joy to alot more people than prior, which hurts really no-one in my unqualified opinion as they have insurance and profit margins to cover this guys Italian collection and the rest of his extended family if the studios wanted too lmfaooo@@kaineandrews3790
@@jurassicturtle3666 True, but that still doesn't make it fair, or even morally right, and just goes to show how corrupt our government is. Granted that's not new information to me, but still. Would be nice to have some positive change for once
I love how this implies that if those greedy companies offering paid TV channels just lowered their prices to match his, they would be making much more money
His flexing was his downfall, but I don’t think he did anything wrong, bc he wasn’t scamming ppl, he offered real cable service, for like 15 a month, vs cable companies were charging like quadruple that, on some disgusting shit, like there’s a reason why ppl stopped going to cable, nun to watch AND they’re charging ridiculously, there are better options now, and he offered one, his was just illegal, but even suggesting saying 500 years is crazy, that’s where Americas priorities are, there’s dangerous ppl out here selling their own kids, grandkids in sex trades, and ain’t nobody doing goddamn thing, but mess with some big companies money, oh u gettin the book thrown at you, gtfoh
It's a harsh reminder that not every law the USA government has is a just and fair law. "Child enthusiasts" getting far less harsh maximum sentences then a paid-subscription TV piracy ring of huge companies that are almost too big to fail...says a lot.
He made off with $30 million, so if you 'quadruple' that, theoretically the cable companies are out of pocket $120 million. It's by no means a small crime. You're not entitled to a cable service tho, if you don't like their product or think it's too expensive, don't use it. It's not like they're stealing water. They've gone out of their way to provide a service (Telecommunications infrastructure is really expensive to roll-out and maintain btw - there are no 'mom and pop' telecom companies - they are necessarily huge companies), they can charge whatever they like.
@@xbigbooshx4643 yeah, just remembering that the "mr swirl" guy is free after being judged guilty and facing, like, 5 years in prison, even less than omi, is really infurianting
5:38 "Knowing full well that I'm not committing crimes...like this." Okay, so he's committing some very under the radar crimes that nobody will be looking for. Smart criminal.
Honestly I’m not even mad, dude just was trying to secure a future for his family, and it’s not like these media giants were so hurt by his actions in the end.
One of my buddies went down for that. I knew he was making good money but I didn't know it was like that. Guess buying that 2 story house wasn't a good idea.
The enforcement arm of the IRS has been heavily understaffed and under resourced, so they’re really only going after easy cases. If you’re rich and can afford a bunch of lawyers to help you shelter your assets, you’ll prob be fine.
fascinating stuff...I'm glad Muta actually dumbs it down for guys like me who wouldn't understand barely half of what Omi decided to do. Stream capture and copyright infringement for 514 years Alex!!
Makes you wonder how people do terrible things either over the internet or through the internet and never get caught. But when you mess with certain people's money, you get caught in about 2 years.
I saw another video on this guy. If I remember correctly the reason why he was so open about everything was because he thought he found a loophole so he couldn't get charged for doing it. I know it's silly, just worth a mention lol. He also had money before this too I think, he owned a nightclub, maybe a few of them too. Not sure if he still owns them after all this, but if he does he'll still have a bit of income when he gets out. I expect we may see him again, still in aHellcat even, maybe he just has one of them at that point tho lol
Oh absolutely. He provided basically free services and used what he gained to provide for his family AND bought some decent cars. Nothing nearly as bad as what EDP445 did.
Even then, that wouldn't work as if I understand it right, the US government can literally have you deported back to the states where they can then arrest you. At least I'm pretty sure they can, I have no sources or evidence for it so this is all just based on stuff I heard about, but one does not simply mess with the government and get away scott-free. That much is an undeniable fact
He earns money generated from another country (at least, as I understand how TH-cam pays folks.) That means he’s gotta file with the IRS, if only to get back any taxes TH-cam/Google automatically withholds that don’t actually apply to him as a Canadian citizen.
*IRS using all their power to throw some pirate in prison for torrenting media that already made billions in revenue* *Meanwhile EDP going on his mary way to retrieve a cupcake* FBI: Im workin on it.
How to deal with the IRS. Work under the table, and put all your belongings in someone elses name. They can't take "someone elses" things that's following tax code.
That's way to much time for something like this.thats rediclous amount of time for anything like that.all the while bankers and corporations due massive systemic harm.
Its sad to see omi go, but hes a very respectable guy. He provides for his family and understands what he has done and took the charges gracefully. Hope when he gets out he will continue to be dope.
God people still sell pirated cable boxes? This reminds me of "The Polish Guy" in suburban Illinois during the 80s. Guy didnt have a name, probably wasnt Polish, but he had more cable boxes in his trunk than you could find human hands in the Fox River. That softcore porn though...whew
Honestly, I feel bad for him. It’s because he ripped off cable companies that they even cared. Also his sentence is pretty high when it comes down to white collar crime
One thing that always gets me with these crimes. The guy gets all his assets taken off him. But the tv folk that he scammed it off wont get a penny of it!
It must be so hard to be a billionaire. It must be so hard to have to settle for a 75 inch 4K TV in your million dollar private jet because IPTV make it so you cant get a 90 inch 8K TV put into your 5 million dollar private jet..... Meanwhile the people paying $20 a month for bootleg IPTV are living in run down trailers and are shocked their minimum wage job even gives them enough money after paying their pills that they can even AFFORD such a luxury as bootleg IPTV
@rashira9610 I'm not talking or care about the TV folk. I'm talking the government scam, I crash my car into a building. The insurance pays for the damage but the police also get involved and put points on my licence and fines me 1000 bucks, but they don't give that to the insurance they just keep it themselves. Have seen Google and Windows being fined for 10s of millions for not delivering on stuff, but they don't give a penny of the money back to the customers that lost out. They watch people scamming folk for years doing nothing about it.. then step in and claim all the money for themselves.
ehhhh if thats what you consider soaring high, you're goals in life are superficial and corrupted. Esp when doing so in a way that it can all be lost in an instant (illegally)
What’s crazy is that this affected companies that are worth millions and the money they “lost” is the equivalent of a normal person losing a penny yet Logan Paul promotes advertises endorses crypto scams and rug pulls that affects people who are not millionaires and more than likely lost their life savings and he doesn’t even get a slap on the wrist
The founding fathers said that the people would have the power but didn't account for the big corporations buying the country and controlling everything.
Guy: steals 35m from big streaming services and gets a potential suggested 500 years in prison. Billionaires: steal literal BILLIONS from the working class and evade taxes. Gets sentenced to 0 days in prison.
Omi making yt videos was actually the smartest thing he could’ve done. Because even when they seized all of his assets he still made millions of dollars off merch from his loyal followers.
@stmsin That's harmless greed, which was the point of people being able to still feel for the guy. He wasn't exploiting anybody. The victims were corporations.
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This has always been my fear start showing off and have the government quietly be investigate
*Muta.......... Now report the part where he bought all new cars back before he went to prison. I've never known you for doing half the research.* 🤣🤣
Muta please buy one of those super cars, it'll be pretty lit if you did 🤙
I'm willing to bet only started his YT channel was to wash his money anyway
The fact that they suggested +500 years of jail just like is nothing tells you that cable companies have way too much power and copyright infrigment is a stronger crime than murder in the US.
It’s not just that. It’s also the money laundering.
For real, what's the point of jailing a non violent criminal other than to send the message that you should never fuck with corporations ? In world that made sense they'd strip him of the money he stole, pay a fine and set him free.
Everyone caught on 'To catch a predator' got freed after about a year. If they even got jailtime.
Meanwhile.
It’s unfortunately always about the money.
@@kris1123259 In a world that made sense copyright law would not exist and so would the need for illegal discount steaming services
Remember, not even the joker messes with the IRS.
Yep, he fights a crazy man dressed as a bat but taking on the IRS is 1 step to far.
@@fredriklind6727He ain't a crazy man LMAO
The Jonkler may be based,but he's also not crazy enough to fight the IRS. Truly an Asslume moment
@@damikey18he spent 10 years training to be a ninja only to dress as a bat to fight crime in a city. He's not the most sane person out there let's just say 😂
Maybe joker isn't as crazy as we thought.
514 years suggested for a non violent crime that was hurting nobody but the greedy Monopoly money hungry cable companies
As victimless as it gets
Arguably it didn’t even hurt them, most of the people probably never would have bought the services due to prices…
@@JennyNobody unfortunately potential losses regardless of how many would of actually subscribed are considered when it comes to copyright infringement like this but your point still stands that it was chump change to them and this was just a means of teaching him a lesson
@@Blackhomeking12 it makes me sick that that’s a thing mega corps can benefit from. It’s an important rule for the little guys… but the way the system is set up it just give even more power to corps who have no right to be as all-encompassing as they are.
Its sad isn't it
There are people that have done horrible, UNSPEAKABLE things and have gotten less time/punishment than this guy….and that’s if they go to jail at all. If this doesn’t convince you the law cares more about corporations than people nothing will
Capitalism
“I’m crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? No thank you!” - Joker
LOL where you read that?
"who pays their taxes? NOT BATMAN"
@@dom2760Its actually from an episode of the 90s Batman animated series
Craziest thing to me is that people still pay for cable TV in this day and age, even my 90 year old grandmother doesn't do that anymore.
I don't get it. Imagine waiting 7 hrs for a show to come on only for it to be a 5 year old episode😂
With streaming going to shit there’s not much difference anymore
DVDS / BLURAYS! OWN YOUR ENTERTAINMENT!
@@calebm9000well there are lots of great streaming websites who have everything and you don’t need to pay a single penny for them, because there are good people out there who believe in freedom and spread it for others!
@calebm9000 indeed especially with the rate of ads being comparable or even WORSE than cable television
Hello Mutahar. Im a Pole and I've been watching polish youtube for the 12, maybe 13 years. There's a huge drama here, called "Pandora Gate". Its something like EDP's situation, but it has a much larger scale. Polish youtubers, who raised the whole generation suddenly appeared as monsters. I think you should cover it in your video. I know its not in english language, but I think you should make a video about it.
Edit: A Little bit of explanation: Stuart Burton (he's British, but he speaks in polish), known as PolskiPingwin (polish penguin) talked with a lot of underage girls (age of consent in Poland is 15). He wrote disguisting, sexual messages to his 14, sometimes even 13 year old fans. He even met with some of them in his house, hotels and other places. Video about him opened "pandora's box" and youtubers started to destroy each other, just to take the attention from them. It all happened a couple years ago. It appears that many of his youtube friend knew about his behaviour, and some of them even have done the same disguisting things. Many polish politicians became interested in this topic, mainly because parliamentary elections will begin in 15 october.
Channel who brought up this topic - Krulestwo, Sylwester Wardęga
Hi random Polish internet person. Y'all have some damn fine food. Thank you
@@tenebrousoul9368 name me a single EU country that doesn't
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I used Omi's IPTV service for years... the UI was shockingly well-designed. It put all top cable companies to shame.
Doesn’t surprise me at all, pirates always put more effort in which is really funny
Yh alot of those pirating services give you better quality for less money than cable services. No wonder they want to give him 5 fucking centuries of prison time
All jokes aside, he should be left alone in regards to all this once he's out. He didnt hurt anyone outside of insured corporations. He'll have served his debt to society, and should honestly be allowed back on the platform. Document his journey of coming back from all this. Love watching a redemption arc. His heart holds good, you can see it in his eyes. Phoenixes are friggin cool.
Omi is a Philly local legend. Never hurt anyone and although committed tax fraud, he never hurt anyone and sold cheap cable to those who obviously couldn’t afford it.
Yeah I just met someone at my job that’s doing the same thing tbh I just see it as honest hustle but not big companies
If you can't afford it, just pay for streaming. Also if he was actually humble he wouldn't be flexing that many cars, but rather would do something for his community with all that money
Roku, Firestick, Google Chromecast. Anybody can afford to watch free cable.
Funny enough his Ex gf’s mom is a Philadelphia DA
this makes me deppresed. a multi billion company losing a weeks income is worse than real criminals
Capitalism
what's insane is that a murderer would probably get a lower sentence than this. Murica justice system is a joke
Probably not
well why do you think the irs is the only agency joker won't fuck around with
The IRS pays for the justice system. Everyone answers to the IRS.
Is most the sentence because of the not paying taxes or for copyright infringement? I mean, in either case the amount of time is some BS.
First degree murder gets you a life sentence.
You know the IRS is a force to be reckoned with when a supervillain clown doesn't want to fuck with them
That would be considered
Madvillainy
I'll see myself out
supervillain theme
Except if you are a big corporation. So basically most villains will be fucked except the Lex Luthor type.
Microsoft actually uses lobbyists to defund the IRS so they can't go after them due to lack of funds, look it up.
@@giantclaw138i see the mf doom reference
@@nickyiscrazy Don't crucify me, but I haven't listened through Madvillany all the way through yet, though I plan on doing it. I use RYM a lot, so that's why I know about mf doom in the first place. That site is the frickin best
If you ever need proof that the U.S justice system is screwed, just remember that Omi got sent to prison for giving people television access, while EDP and Chris-chan are still roaming free.
Not only is Chris Chan free he was released from jail. So they reviewed the case and his mental state and decided "yeah he's fine to walk amongst the public."
True, sometimes criminal go free and therefore system BAD!
Well there is legal action being taken rn against edp by a TH-camr named Skeeter jean
But the first time edp was caught there was nothing that could be done legally as the sting was fucked up from the start as well as not having any police on site
@@mpsins And they didn't even bother telling him to stay away from Barb. 🤦♂️
@@Zach0451the whole government is full of criminals, that's why
I knew a dude who was a former career criminal. One thing he said will always stick with me. "If you do it once or twice, you might not get caught, but if you're doing this for a living, you WILL get caught. It's not "if", it's "when". And when you get caught, they're gonna take all your stuff, put you in jail, and when you get out, you're gonna be right back at square one. Except now, cops aren't gonna treat you like a regular person. They're gonna treat you like a criminal."
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Holy shit
If the Joker doesn’t fuck with the IRS, you don’t fuck with the IRS
or even going by a real world example, if they're good enough to catch al capone, they good enough to catch you
Facts
Okay 500 years over piracy is stupid, they put rapists in prison for like 2 years
Capitalism
@@ShwappaJ yep,sounds about right,especially with multi million,potentially even billion dollar corporations existing,they can just put people in jail for the rest of their life,while peices of shit who actually deserve it,get put in jail for less than 10 years
ik that is a crime too but jesus christ
I will die on the hill of believing that if a million+ people just up and dicided to stop paying the IRS overnight, there's nothing they could do about it because there isn't enough cops, cells, or jails to be able to arrest that many people.
Okay. Die on that hill. Enjoy it when literally everything grinds to a complete halt. Schools? Oops. Those are gone. Medicare? Poof. Social Security? What’s that? Oh, the sizable contingent of citizens who work for government agencies in all manner of jobs? Well, they’re out of work, and oopsies, no unemployment for them. Infrastructure to maintain roads, power lines, phone lines? None of that, thanks. NASA? Had to shut ‘er down. Gonna see a big dip in college enrollment and donations or grants to artists and scientists.
Tax money gets funneled into a lot of places and programs, not just to feed the (admittedly bloated) bureaucratic staff and military. Shutting it down is not the answer. Holding everyone accountable for their due share is.
You can believe all you want. Good luck.
Maybe you'll see omi when you go to prison.
Or maybe not, cuz the US isnt the whole world lmao
@yakimator9679 true, but the US is the only one that deals with the IRS specifically. I believe everyone in all countries should fight back against taxation, but I was mainly talking about the US.
Or just all of the population, not like other countries are going to help us imprison our own people. Especially not Russia or China, they hate us entirely.
It’s like the dude never watched a criminal move before. He needed someone to guide him to say “don’t upload you whole operation on TH-cam dawg”
that guy seems like a cool person to be fair, I watched someone elses video on him before. wishing him the best
Omi is a genuine dude who has given abck tot he community, charity and more many times imho. He really just found a loophole, and sadly got penalized for using said loophole. But compared to the amount of people whove committed MUCH worse crimes, id say he definitely got the unlucky end of the stick. Not excusing what he did, but in actuality, i didnt think he deserved or needed to serve actual time for what he did. Him just losing his assets, while paying back would have sufficed. He essentially gave people access to tv, but of course the way he went about it was the issue.
If he comes back to TH-cam have him on the podcast, I'd love to see his perspective and he could probably use some good influence
Convictions are in the high 90% because they include all plea deals as convictions. It is a conviction, but not indicative of their actual trial win rate(which is much lower).
A man just got charged with 10 months of house arrest for attempting to murder someone with a machete. Fck with the IRS you get 514 years.
Corrupt system.
That's American Capitalism for ya
I hope they let him off easy with minimum punishment. This way he acknowledges that it could have been much worse. He seems like a reasonable guy. I'm sure he wants to help others not make the same mistake . I wish em the best of luck
I have a feeling they will. I really can't imagine him being locked up for life for a completely non-violent crime.
....but then again, the justice system here sure can be "strange"
He made a video acknowledging this already
@@billymanilli He basically stole $120 million. People have done longer for less
It’s not the worst thing a YTer has done, not by a long shot.
Name it...
@@dom2760 Hmm…
Ruby Franke with her child abuse? Multiple YTers like EDP, Miranda Sings, Miniladd, and various others under allegation of pedophilia solicitation attempts? The Paul brothers and all the NFT/crypto scamming they’ve done? Just to name a few examples.
Logan Paul. At least his customers got some service for their money. Logans just got straight up scammed
EDP445. Nuff said.
im pretty sure that literally any youtuber who got caught sexting minors are way worse than stealing from giant company
He had too many expensive cars so the IRS had to look into his finances and figure out where the money was coming from
It's the same mistake drug dealers make. Way too flashy for your reported earnings.
No shit, Sherlock.
@@DodgerX Being toxic for no reason. Classic TH-cam comment section moment.
@@xbigbooshx4643 throwing the word 'toxic' around like a cow in a tornado is 'toxic'.
@@frankcooke1692 What are you going on about.
Omi doubled down on the bad ideas. Making a business out of illegal TV broadcasting, combined with living such a high profile lifestyle, is only marginally below not giving Uncle Sam a cut on the list of bad ideas. The media cartels won't let that slide.
Tbh, anyone who screws over cable companies is alright in my book 😅
Should've taken his 36m and moved to Latin America or Asia
@@neopolitangaming1362 I guess you could say your book... Doesn't go by the book 🤔
@@fartquaviasdingle7876 Bye, book.
Now if only government put the same amount of effort into investigating guys like EDP.
It's like law enforcement only exists to protect profitability and not the public or something.....
And when people do it them selves like catch a predator TH-camrs, it’s usually not really taken seriously by police and they usually just kinda brush it off.
Law enforcement isn't government, that's the FBI.
@@supermexicanroboninja3116 and doctors aren't employees at hospitals. Good one.
@@beanslol1725 Because it does not involved real minor.
America is a joke of a country in general. Nothing beneficial ever gets done because corporations are always bribing politicians.
Homie had all these cars but couldn't be bothered to build a garage for them. He was straight up asking for trouble.
TH-cam asked me what I thought about the comment, I said it was funny and rated it 5/5
Zoning laws. There was a video where he started building one and the city made him tear it down
@@letsgotomarsmanHoly shit from all I've heard zoning laws are the single most backwards thing in the US. Genuinely the cause for so many problems.
Omi is a hero who saved people $100+ a month. Given how many consumers he had, he saved the population at least $100M in cable bills. He also famously used to give delivery guys and waitresses $10,000 tips all the time. This story is a perfect example of how legality and morality are not the same thing. Truly a beautiful person.
Agreed. Like yeah, I don't agree with him essentially flaunting it with all those super cars, but at the end of the day it was probably the most tame crime he could've committed, especially when compared to a lot of the crimes other youtubers commit. Bro didn't deserve a suggested 500 year sentence or even a 5 1/2 year sentence. 5 months maximum I would say
No wonder they have such a high conviction rate. 5 years if he pleads guilty, up to 514 years if he tries to fight the 2 years worth of insurmountable evidence. He at least chose that wisely.
5 years isn’t that bad, and you keep a good amount of money.
He is gonna walk away from this making an actual profit just not nearly the profit he would have laid low
It’s a high conviction rate because they only charge you once they have mountains of evidence. Federal agency will gather piles and piles of evidence, if you get caught, you screwed. This ain’t your local sheriff.
Bro baught millions of dollars in cars but couldnt buy a shirt that fits properly.
Unless you're DSP, the IRS will blow you out.
DSP outlasts Omi.
I still don't understand why he's not in court (at least) for any of that. There's literal publicly available proof he committed bankruptcy fraud too.
@@johns1625 It's why people joke that DSP will outlast the heat-death of the sun.
You know what's funny? I'm not even a US citizen (I live on the opposite end of the continent), but the moment he said "3 letter agency you just don't mess with" I instantly knew it was the IRS xD
What 3 letter agency you cant mess with? IRS. Unless your a dog, then it's the ATF.
Nah, it is is the COP(s). Just like people, dogs WILL be shot
If only PETA wasn't 4 letters...
Cia is the craziest. I feel bad for the fbi finding crimes only to realize it was some cia “test”
12:00 I paused Muta to find the Omi video in question and...
Omi retroactively unwittingly memed himself by having a smoke detector that needs its battery replaced.
The Universe truly has one of the senses of humor of all time.
Omi played with fire n got burnt but he handled it like a G so I got nothing but respect for him
There’s a reason why I dressed up as the IRS for Halloween in highschool. I wore a suit with a sign pinned to me that said IRS.
Bro is out here providing society a service getting crazy sentencing; while pedos get to run free is wild to me...
Honestly, agreed. They need harsher punishments for scumbags like that
@@mayravixx25it's not hard to figure out why the people who make the rules don't make punishments for certain crimes harsher than they are.
“A service.” Well, that’s one way to refer to stealing something, then illegally selling that something to others and doing so frequently enough and with enough profit margin that you have an entire Italian exotic car dealership on your property, while stealing a video game’s logo for your marketing, then pretending that money doesn’t exist when tax time comes.
He ripped off people who are ripping everyone else off, and made accessible services that provided joy to alot more people than prior, which hurts really no-one in my unqualified opinion as they have insurance and profit margins to cover this guys Italian collection and the rest of his extended family if the studios wanted too lmfaooo@@kaineandrews3790
@@jurassicturtle3666 True, but that still doesn't make it fair, or even morally right, and just goes to show how corrupt our government is. Granted that's not new information to me, but still. Would be nice to have some positive change for once
yeah lockup the cable guy and let shane dawson play with more cats
I love how this implies that if those greedy companies offering paid TV channels just lowered their prices to match his, they would be making much more money
Right
His flexing was his downfall, but I don’t think he did anything wrong, bc he wasn’t scamming ppl, he offered real cable service, for like 15 a month, vs cable companies were charging like quadruple that, on some disgusting shit, like there’s a reason why ppl stopped going to cable, nun to watch AND they’re charging ridiculously, there are better options now, and he offered one, his was just illegal, but even suggesting saying 500 years is crazy, that’s where Americas priorities are, there’s dangerous ppl out here selling their own kids, grandkids in sex trades, and ain’t nobody doing goddamn thing, but mess with some big companies money, oh u gettin the book thrown at you, gtfoh
It's a harsh reminder that not every law the USA government has is a just and fair law. "Child enthusiasts" getting far less harsh maximum sentences then a paid-subscription TV piracy ring of huge companies that are almost too big to fail...says a lot.
He made off with $30 million, so if you 'quadruple' that, theoretically the cable companies are out of pocket $120 million. It's by no means a small crime. You're not entitled to a cable service tho, if you don't like their product or think it's too expensive, don't use it. It's not like they're stealing water. They've gone out of their way to provide a service (Telecommunications infrastructure is really expensive to roll-out and maintain btw - there are no 'mom and pop' telecom companies - they are necessarily huge companies), they can charge whatever they like.
@@frankcooke1692 Booooo
@@xbigbooshx4643 yeah, just remembering that the "mr swirl" guy is free after being judged guilty and facing, like, 5 years in prison, even less than omi, is really infurianting
A lot of corporations get the money into politics therefore get their own way
5:43 "The reason I sleep so easily at night is because I'm not committing crimes... Like this"
JAJAJAJAJA, I love that quick correction.
The IRS is the real world equivalent of The Boogeyman
5:38 "Knowing full well that I'm not committing crimes...like this." Okay, so he's committing some very under the radar crimes that nobody will be looking for. Smart criminal.
When the US Government wants to give people stealing cable longer prison sentences than mass murderers…
or pedophiles, or rapists, the list goes on really
Capitalism.
They don't care until it happens to them
When a single mistake happens:
IRS : **Thanos snap**
I just wish that the government would put this effort into real crimes
Solving them or committing them? 😂
@@SaraRankins. Solving them of course. They already pretty efficient at committing crimes just fine, its solving them that they have a problem with.
@@villager736never ever attempt to solve a crime you carried out. - Guvmint
Me too, it's kind of insulting.
It's because to the government, they only wanna solve crimes that gets them money back
Honestly I’m not even mad, dude just was trying to secure a future for his family, and it’s not like these media giants were so hurt by his actions in the end.
One of my buddies went down for that. I knew he was making good money but I didn't know it was like that. Guess buying that 2 story house wasn't a good idea.
The enforcement arm of the IRS has been heavily understaffed and under resourced, so they’re really only going after easy cases. If you’re rich and can afford a bunch of lawyers to help you shelter your assets, you’ll prob be fine.
fascinating stuff...I'm glad Muta actually dumbs it down for guys like me who wouldn't understand barely half of what Omi decided to do. Stream capture and copyright infringement for 514 years Alex!!
Mutahar saying that he sleeps peacefully at night because he is not committing crimes "like this" 😂
Downloading 30 year old games that can't be purchased anymore ILLEGALLY D:
@mikael557 lmao yeah, weed is legal in Canada, he good
Makes you wonder how people do terrible things either over the internet or through the internet and never get caught. But when you mess with certain people's money, you get caught in about 2 years.
This new go to jail speed run (non-violent offense edition) is peak gaming
Even the Spanish Inquisition never expects the IRS
99% of us guessed IRS... Not even the Joker messes with the IRS...
I'm in the 1% then that thought "oh, NSA maybe?" Didn't even occur to me that he messed with the IRS ngl
So corps can literally mass cull ppl and face only fines but they wanna put this guy in jail for life? Wowza the justice system is cracked.
I saw another video on this guy. If I remember correctly the reason why he was so open about everything was because he thought he found a loophole so he couldn't get charged for doing it. I know it's silly, just worth a mention lol. He also had money before this too I think, he owned a nightclub, maybe a few of them too. Not sure if he still owns them after all this, but if he does he'll still have a bit of income when he gets out. I expect we may see him again, still in aHellcat even, maybe he just has one of them at that point tho lol
This hero's videos used to pop up in recommendations. Never would have imagined this is why they stopped.
I'll say Omi is a Saint compared to these other youtuber creeps.
TV piracy ring > "child enthusiasts"
absophuccinglutely. "child defilers" deserve to be tree ornaments
Oh absolutely. He provided basically free services and used what he gained to provide for his family AND bought some decent cars. Nothing nearly as bad as what EDP445 did.
He may not be the smartest criminal, at least he has humility
Dude if I made that much illegally, I’d just leave the US forever! 😂
Even then, that wouldn't work as if I understand it right, the US government can literally have you deported back to the states where they can then arrest you. At least I'm pretty sure they can, I have no sources or evidence for it so this is all just based on stuff I heard about, but one does not simply mess with the government and get away scott-free. That much is an undeniable fact
Right I'll just travel
I'm crazy enough to take on the Batman, but the IRS?
ñooooooooohohohoho, thank you!
But Muta, you're Canadian. The IRS doesn't apply to you. Unless the Canadian government tax agency is also called the IRS.
I'm sure canada has it's own equally terrifying agency like that. Can't say that for fact, but it wouldn't surprise me
@@mayravixx25oof
He earns money generated from another country (at least, as I understand how TH-cam pays folks.) That means he’s gotta file with the IRS, if only to get back any taxes TH-cam/Google automatically withholds that don’t actually apply to him as a Canadian citizen.
@@mayravixx25 The CRA will pound ass if you're not careful
They were studying this dude for 2 years? Imagine if they actually finally move on DSP
Omni legitimately thought that he had a legal business lmao that’s why he was so brazen
*IRS using all their power to throw some pirate in prison for torrenting media that already made billions in revenue*
*Meanwhile EDP going on his mary way to retrieve a cupcake*
FBI: Im workin on it.
Its just stupid to me that people like this will sit in jail for years while convicted murders and rapists are let off
Do you think murderers and rapists should spend more time in prison then?
noi shit@@TomTKK
So if that's the case then the sentence on hellcat seems reasonable
Remember people unless your Yoshi committing tax fraud you cannot get away with screwing with the IRS, even the Joker wouldn't do that!
is that SMG4 references :D
If he only did it pretending as a “reactor” he would have gotten away with it like XQC
@@raydark8007 I see I'm not the only one who thought of that 😅
@@hirotakasugi4891 And DSP too. That guy is somehow still free after screwing with the IRS.
I felt smug when Muta said not the FBI when I was thinking CIA then he got the left hook on me.
Even the joker don't fuck with the IRS
The way you pronounced “Camaro” and “Durango” killed me💀
IKR?!
Even Thugnificent fears the IRS
How to deal with the IRS. Work under the table, and put all your belongings in someone elses name. They can't take "someone elses" things that's following tax code.
Once years ago, someone suicide bombed a IRS building with his plane, and everyone supported him. We need more heros like that.
Running an IPTV service needs to be a business option in GTA 6
That's way to much time for something like this.thats rediclous amount of time for anything like that.all the while bankers and corporations due massive systemic harm.
You know if only he did it on a streaming site as a “reactor” he would have gotten away with it too like XQC.
They couldn't get Capone for all the murders, and then the IRS came knocking and he was screwed.
Its sad to see omi go, but hes a very respectable guy. He provides for his family and understands what he has done and took the charges gracefully. Hope when he gets out he will continue to be dope.
I can't be the only person who's jimmies got rustled at how Muta pronounced "Camaro".
YES
God people still sell pirated cable boxes? This reminds me of "The Polish Guy" in suburban Illinois during the 80s. Guy didnt have a name, probably wasnt Polish, but he had more cable boxes in his trunk than you could find human hands in the Fox River. That softcore porn though...whew
I'm off of school today and Muta posted, life is good.
Honestly, I feel bad for him. It’s because he ripped off cable companies that they even cared. Also his sentence is pretty high when it comes down to white collar crime
The reason conviction rates are so high is because rather than risk years in a federal prison most people take a plea deal.
As said by Joker, "I'm crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? No thank you!"
"I'm not scared of the IRS"
You're Canadian.
couldnt figure out which ABC agency you were talking about until you said theyll always screw you lmao
i saw this on the recent podcast u had and this shit was so funny and so insane at the same time, keep up the good work Muta, SUS!!!!!!
One thing that always gets me with these crimes. The guy gets all his assets taken off him. But the tv folk that he scammed it off wont get a penny of it!
It must be so hard to be a billionaire.
It must be so hard to have to settle for a 75 inch 4K TV in your million dollar private jet because IPTV make it so you cant get a 90 inch 8K TV put into your 5 million dollar private jet.....
Meanwhile the people paying $20 a month for bootleg IPTV are living in run down trailers and are shocked their minimum wage job even gives them enough money after paying their pills that they can even AFFORD such a luxury as bootleg IPTV
@rashira9610 I'm not talking or care about the TV folk. I'm talking the government scam, I crash my car into a building. The insurance pays for the damage but the police also get involved and put points on my licence and fines me 1000 bucks, but they don't give that to the insurance they just keep it themselves.
Have seen Google and Windows being fined for 10s of millions for not delivering on stuff, but they don't give a penny of the money back to the customers that lost out.
They watch people scamming folk for years doing nothing about it.. then step in and claim all the money for themselves.
I've seen other commenters claim that his cable service was actually superior to the ones he got from
“I never commit crimes like this” 🤣😂 bro ain’t sayin he doesn’t commit crimes … just not crimes like Omi. Salute!
Say what you want but even if it was just for a little while that guy soared higher than I probably ever will
ehhhh if thats what you consider soaring high, you're goals in life are superficial and corrupted. Esp when doing so in a way that it can all be lost in an instant (illegally)
Got Capone, so I don't think any of us are out of range for the IRS 😂😂 but won't stop folks from trying
What’s crazy is that this affected companies that are worth millions and the money they “lost” is the equivalent of a normal person losing a penny yet Logan Paul promotes advertises endorses crypto scams and rug pulls that affects people who are not millionaires and more than likely lost their life savings and he doesn’t even get a slap on the wrist
The founding fathers said that the people would have the power but didn't account for the big corporations buying the country and controlling everything.
Logan scams individual people, not big companies who can create laws by lobbying. Use your brain sometimes ok
@@stellviahohenheim uhhhh you just backed up my statement booboo I think someone wasn’t using their noodle 🧠 😉 baby girl you’re silly😜 😝 🙃
@@stellviahohenheim silly silly girl
Guy: steals 35m from big streaming services and gets a potential suggested 500 years in prison.
Billionaires: steal literal BILLIONS from the working class and evade taxes. Gets sentenced to 0 days in prison.
Omi making yt videos was actually the smartest thing he could’ve done. Because even when they seized all of his assets he still made millions of dollars off merch from his loyal followers.
whenever you don’t post I legit get mad lol 😂😭 keep up the good work g 💪🏿
Honestly this man seemed like a nice guy who just flew too close to the sun , i will be supporting him in full once he gets out
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Lol... 🙄 Philippians 2.
@stmsin That's harmless greed, which was the point of people being able to still feel for the guy. He wasn't exploiting anybody. The victims were corporations.
@stmsin He saved people from greed by saving people $100s a month. He can buy however many cars he wants.
@stmsin Greedy? He famously used to order pizzas and give the delivery guys $10,000 tips.