@@superkripto8681 not at all money does not make you famous not even a little bit he made a conscious decision to become famous and post his life on Instagram and TH-cam. I hope he gets off but yeah I know tons of rich guys that have 0.0 fame
You're right but you're not gonna win a fight against a corporation. By that same logic America takes advantage of it's citizens via income taxes, so what are you gonna do? There are some fights you just can't win whether you like it or not. That's life.
how do they have unfair monopolies? There is so many stream providers, cable providers and other type of providers that allow access to TV shows. Those cable companies pay smaller less know production companies money to be shown on their channels. Omi used pirated software to hack into the providers and stream those shows and not give any money back to those production companies. Those companies are loses money. It isn't the cable company that suffers its the smaller companies trying to make legit businesses that now don't get there shows picked up again due to lack of funding from cable companies. They see that those shows aren't worth the price and move onward due to less views.
@@fighterpimp you are being obtuse. the amount of money to compete with cable providers makes the marketplace a monopoly. especially when said providers are owned by mega corps that can afford to pay lawmakers to keep the marketplace & laws in their favor. I guess it's fine for corporations to use "loopholes" but not for a regular citizen for you eh? FYI. You'll never be in the 1%.
I'm actually impressed by the scale and the amount of money he was able to generate, should have kept his mouth shut and stayed off of social media and he'd be sitting somewhere on an island paid for the rest of his life
Or moved and live in a country where he could not get charged for what he was doing. Asia is full of copyright-infringing companies. A lot of them mass-produce Major Name Brand Products and sell them to countries other than the USA. Check out the Fake Markets selling Name brands dirt cheap in Viet Nam, Thailand, and other Asian countries...
This is the lesson he is really trying to teach. Get your money, keep your mouth shut then run. He didn't do that and will seriously regret once the wrap this case up.
Nah. That's for the "legal" criminals, politicians, corporations, "Royal" families, Bezos', Musk's, etc etc. They don't pay taxes, prey on "cattle" etc etc. We are the livestock, we are not to profit unless through "hard work", or "wise investments" These morally higher ground goofs are a bit annoying.
Exactly. Those same corporations coming after him are the main ones to exploit loopholes, that benefit themselves and disadvantages others, all the time. The only difference is that the government tends to look the other way when they do it. Especially since the government is on their payroll. They're going hard on him because he ain't in their boy's club and they gotta make sure anyone else coming up, who isn't in their club, get the idea of what can happen if they get too uppity from outsmarting the corporations.
10 seconds in all I could think was “of course when the black guy does it they come after him and ruin his reputation” Meanwhile the Piratebay guys are completely anonymous.. Dude should of kept his head down
Of course they are. This is no different from Napster. If you look at Pay Per View and don't pay, you know you're stealing it. You can argue whatever you want but you know it's not legit. If you're going to make a killing taking advantages of loopholes like that and you rub it in people's faces, they're going to get mad. People steal services all the time and no one cares or gets in trouble, but you brag about "Look how much of a baller I am" - that encourages others and others so who the hell wouldn't get upset. It's so easy to call other people greedy for not wanting their shit stolen, but let someone tap into your electrical line and cable line (which is a very good analogy for it), no big deal, drives your costs up a tiny bit but no big deal. Now let 15 people share your electric water and internet, they use all they can b/c it's free, at some point it chokes off yours and you have to spend more money to even keep things working. Now Imagine these same people packing it and selling it "Don't be a sucker paying Electrical, Cable and Cell Service, pay me $100.00 a month and you can get all three (but they sell the lines into your stuff). Would you be pissed off? Then you ask them to stop and they call you greedy and have people jeer at you. I bet every single person in this thread that is criticizing the companies or saying No Big Deal would absolutely be infuriated if the same thing was done to them
Seriously Dude, I promise he’s got a high priced attorney and none of them would ever recommend he do press interviews while under indictment. Remember, nothing you say can help you in court, but everything you say will be used against you.
@@SidewaysInTraffic The only people who matter at this point are the people who can actually judge him which is a Jury and Judge. He is worried about the wrong kind of judgement.
Anyone tainted by what hes said to the press would be excluded from jury selection, if you're a "public figure" you probably would want to have some control of the narrative knowing this..
+ net neutrality. Cable companies like Comcast have spent millions lobbying to eliminate net neutrality which is a MUST HAVE for a free and open internet.
It has nothing to do with humility in my opinion, there's no correlation between having nice things and not being humble, my best guess would be all that real estate didn't sit too well with quite a few people.
Seems like a likable guy. He provided a service from people that wouldn’t have paid anyway Too bad he didn’t know the law. He is guilty but he wasn’t hustling poor people.
@@juleswin7116 what he was doing at the time was not illegal… not in the way you think it was… he found a loophole and exploited that loophole…. At that time it was not illegal to be able to stream your paid content…..so long as it was paid … he basically streamed his paid services for others to see….at that time not illegal…. It would be illegal if he hacked or cracked cable boxes dish network boxes and gave out free content that’s illegal… but you setting up a stream network for your tv was not illegal at all. It should be illegal… but it wasn’t at that time.
@@juleswin7116 still at that time not illegal not in the way he went about it. It was a grey area none the less… so all this he should have known and most likely did know that he was gonna eventually go through the courts…. Greyhat might as-well be black hat…….
Ugh. I'm super conflicted about this one. I could care less about giant multi-billion dollar CORPORATION getting scammed. I used to work at a call center contracted by one of those cable providers and they would constantly make us try to upsell the customers on "digital" products that had no real utility or physical value, create "trouble tickets" for a technician to be at the home only for that technician never to show up. In my opinion, I think these cable providers are malicious to begin with.
My only issue with this statement is that a corporation is ultimately an aggregate of PEOPLE. So ultimately it's 'stealing' from people. With that being said, there's probably a way to do cable better... Which isn't being found on the providers end. If the cable providers don't exist, neither does the cable TV service. So, if that becomes the case... Would folks such as Omi and others find ways to deliver TV shows for the same cheap price? You don't simply do that by decoding a signal.
I haven’t paid for cable since 2004. It’s a living dinosaur technologically. His only mistake is that he didn’t pay his protection fees to the kingpins in the boys club.
The cable companies control the internet too though. At least in my area. You can use a cheaper option sure, but the speeds are almost as bad as dial up. So you are almost forced to pay Spectrum which is stupid expensive
@@heissteveland758 I worked for a cable company. Most users do not realize that something like 70% of the revenue gets reinvested back into the network. It is incredibly expensive to maintain the infrastructure, but more importantly to increase the speeds like they have in the past 20 years is crazy expensive . My first broadband connection in 2002 was 100 kbps for like 80 a month. Today for 80 a month I get 150 mbps. That’s 1000 times speed increase for less (there’s been inflation in the past 20 years) money. No single tech has improved this much and gone down in price ever in human history.
Sorry dude, I'm with Omi on this one, if there was a loophole and he found it and made money, kudos to him. The companies you're trying to make us sympathize with, do they exploit loopholes in tax systems and avoid paying bucketloads of their rightful share of tax? Do they use loopholes to exploit their employees? Do these telecom companies exploit loopholes to provide shitty service, after taking payment from you? Don't bother to answer, the questions were rhetorical To explain with your example, if somebody had their car stolen by their neighbor because they found loophole in the law, would I feel aggravated on their behalf? No, not really... if that somebody had bought that car, paid for gas by themselves exploiting loopholes and screwing over the society at large.
@Jimmy Nagger the internet has made this generation feel like everything should be free because of how easily accessible so many things are. It will get worse before it gets better.
I have no sympathy for cable companies because they have spent billions of dollars lobbying against improving the network infrastructure across America, money that could have actually been used to... You know... Improve the network infrastructure of America. Omi might have found a loophole in the law but when you're playing against the major corporations it's impossible to win.
i have no sympathy for anyone stealing, whether it be big cable companies or people like Omi who tried to finesse and do literally the same thing those cable companies were doing to you.
@@yungpalos agree with you both. He’s both likable and attacking scamming corporations who scam us everyday. I’m wishing him the best. And he seems like he’s willing to pay it back so let him pay it back but to put him in jail for this seems overkill.
This is what I was feeling too. I mean obviously illegal stuff going on but I don't hate his face like most everyone that's been covered on this channel.
@@IGot7RevtinyArmyStayOnceBlink which in turns to ppl like Omi also scamming us. The more scammers the higher we end up paying the cost. We the consumers always foot the bill when others scam.
Omi did not follow the first rule. STOP BEING FLASHY! Imagine if he has STFU and did not have 30 cars in his driveway bringing unwanted attention. I think old buddy is about to do a "coupla bands" in time in prison.
Frank Lopez advice to Omi: The guys that last in this business, are the guys who fly straight. Low-key, quiet. But the guys who want it all, chicas, champagne, flash... they don't last.
make sure you last the guys with the girls and champagne lived their life and had fun you on youtube commenting because you lame in real life if a man came from nothing and made money he suppose too enjoy it because no day is certain you didnt go through their pain for them so stop talking about what people do with their money you aint paying nobody bills grown people are free too do what they want
@@gandr.e.5136 his wife gave him a flashy jacket that he didn't really want yo wear is what got him investigated....women can be a mans downfall sometimes....stick with your gut feeling
Companies hire teams of lawyers just to find loopholes am I supposed to be upset that the little guy did the same? Not at all. His ingenuity is amazing. Hope he comes out on top.
Reading these comments so many of these people don't understand that. They keep mentioning rich people and corporations, exploiting loopholes is not illegal, breaking laws on the books is illegal.
@@KNByam What he did wasn't illegal at the time but he's stepping on the toes of the billion dollar corporations that lobby whatever they want to be recognized as law. It's in the best interest of the industry to make an example of someone to prevent further theft.
@@rdy3733 yep he should have made quick money and then got out instead he flaunted it..sold the app but still recieved money from the website. Guess what the feds will take down all of you and take everything haha and slap a nice 10 20 30 year sentence with a grin on there face.
Is it MORALLY wrong to “steal” from large corps who earn their money from theft and deception? That said, I’m not condoning his behavior. He took a gamble, it paid off. He should have overpaid on his taxes, and should have had a very clear exit strategy that involved accumulation of assets all over the world, and of all different types. There are Wall Street guys who have gone to jail for a white collar crimes, did there seven years or so, and exited prison filthy rich. He had to have been willing to trade some time in jail to come back home filthy rich.
As many others have said in the comments I actually like this guy. He’s ripping off multi-billion dollar corporations who scam, rip off and feed propaganda to folks and have been for decades. Dare I say it this man is based. I wish my dude luck
It's ironic that he gets pursued for tax evasion by taking content from many companies that use corporate loopholes to avoid paying their taxes. The moral of the story is that he didn't go big enough to hire better tax accountants and corporate lawyers to fight for the law to be written to have a loophole for him.
The only reason I think Omi is in trouble with the FBI is because of his channel when you see somebody with all of his cars, buying cars every day you’re going to have the FBI look into you. FBI is on TH-cam, Twitter everywhere.
Exactly. Also Spenser comparing Omi’s misappropriation of a digital good (which is infinitely replicable and NOT unique) to that of a physical good (ie a car) is a bit hilarious.
I really hope this man gets off. Like I have no empathy for the big companies. I really believe he didn't know he was doing anything wrong. But *we* can't follow those same loopholes. He never lied or scammed people.
I would have burned every single car and house to the ground, ran off with the money I could take out and fled to a non extradition country. Companies and the government should be the ones who get fucked for once.
He wouldn’t have been caught if all he did was stop being flashy. If he all he did was buy a nice house in the burbs, a nice Honda or Toyota fully loaded, no social media or limited social media presence then he’d have been fine and only the corporations would have come after him for a few hundred thousand.
Naw he would have been fine if he paid his taxes on time. 30M+ should have had multiple lawyers and accountants, that's how you know people don't know how to act with new money.
Thinking that flashy cars is what brought this guy down, rather than a shady accountant and an obvious affront to one of America's most successful industries, is naive. It's the kind of ignorance that makes you an easy mark. ("How could you arrest me?! I never flaunted my illegal wealth!!!")
I’m with Omi on this one.. he found a glitch in the system and got rich off of cable companies who make their money exploiting loopholes and customers. At least Omi provided an actual product, unlike other scammers. I feel like his flashy lifestyle played into this, but he can get past it and make his money from YT.
In his defense, I don't give a shit about copyright infringement and tax evasion : the guy looks like a black Kim Dotcom, he provided a service, he wasn't out there scamming or ruining people's lives. There is a Robin Hood clause when it comes to "debatably" ripping off notoriously awful companies including cable providers. I have already made money by sharing copyrighted content on streaming websites that I made and I never had a problem with it
@@dominic667 i guess your kind of right, but omni stole content from the large tv companies charging high prices to give the less fortunate. So in that sense he would be Robin hood, since robinhood stole from corrupt governments charging high taxes on the citizens. But him flashing all of his jewellery and cars would not be something Robin hood would do
Cable companies aren’t ripping you off though. They’re forced to pay the content creators the rates they want. You’re stealing from the content creators. Now you may not have ethical issues with it, but you are wrong. People want to be paid for their work and you have the right to not pay them, but you don’t have the right to steal their work to consume it. And you definitely don’t have the right to monetize someone else’s work.
Your analogy of stealing your neighbors car compared to taking some streams from HBO are hardly a good comparison. I could care less if someone takes a few million back from a billion dollar corp who overcharges for their junk.
@@ungwungboozia8797 The biggest thief is the cable company…if you want to be that stupid, keep paying your cable bill and let the smart ppl get the same service for way less !! 😎✌🏼
As someone who knew nothing about this man at all before, it seems to me like the only thing he REALLY did “wrong” was make money when he wasn’t supposed to. Plenty of companies are comfortable skirting minor misdemeanor laws and consider the fines cost of doing business. But this dude wasn’t part of the group allowed to win so they’re dropping the hammer when it would be civil penalties if a Wall Street firm did something wayyyyyyyy worse. Edit: I just realized this is basically the 2010’s version of using the old school antenna to grab signals out of the air for free and showing it to some friends. This is a civil violation at best.
Yup. Totally agree the difference is selling and making money off it. That makes it a CIVIL penalty which would allow the companies to sue him and get an injunction to stop him. This is a drastic overreach to make it criminal
I think nobody would have batted an eye (mostly because nobody would have noticed) if he had invited some friends over to watch some illegally streamed TV. However, if you make double-digit million profits selling access to the networks, you should expect someone come knocking on your door eventually.
People keep saying "if he didn't post all his jewelry and cars he wouldn't have gotten caught!" Do you really think one guy buying up 300 different properties wouldn't have put him in their radar just as quickly?? Lol
i mean honestly bro, in the real estate game stuff changes, MANY real estate deals are purposely obscured, especially commercial properties. we’ll see.
@@jeremylawson6648 It doesn't seem like he made any effort to obscure his property purchases. The paperwork had his name on it along with him talking about it publicly. Feds wouldn't miss something that glaring.
And him not paying taxes on 30 million. Govt expect you to pay taxes on a couple of thousands lol. They would have still gotten him even if he never made a video
@@klash3532 it be more honorable if he was taking that money and giving it to those in need. He wasn’t, he was flexing on the gram and telling YOU he was a legit businessman. How that make him a solid guy???
@@Burrgametate Yeah he's not fucking Robin Hood, is that really the bar for a solid guy? He was basically just gouging the cable companies who have spent billions lobbying so that they can keep these insane prices and terrible deals for everyone else. This guy Gave the public access to everything for a fraction of what these scummy corporations charge. He is a solid guy because his company saved millions of dollars that would've gone to the cable companies' billionaire owners.
@@klash3532 no he sold illegal back door programs for profit, that the only sole purpose of those programs were to steal content from a cable providers. I know people that run illegal streamer sites for years now and the only thing that happens to them, because they make zero profit on the copy righted content. Is a slap on the wrist and site gets taken down after about 12 months of being up. So they just make another site and do the same thing. It is actually a loophole. What he was doing is not a loophole.
I really have trouble feeling bad for the cable companies. I think that them changing the law after the fact might get him off. Cable TV probably won't even exist in a few years, and I see this as them trying to cash out before the big fall.
Legit. I hate mega media corps, and I'm fine with people stealing their content. With that said, it's illegal, and there's good reason for it to be illegal. Idiots in here saying it shouldn't be a serious crime? Ah, ok. So if you ever develop a product, or make some really good music, I guess Sony should march in and steal all your music, sell it and make millions, and you get nothing. Rigghtttt.
IF I provide you with a gun because Im a gun store and you kill someone, Im reponsible for that death? Ofc not, if someone misuse the product that you sell him, its totally their fault.
Actually you’re all wrong. Amazon has an obligation to make sure that what people are selling on their platform is legal. And they have a process to review everything that is sold. So all these different “stores” that were selling the Kodi sticks had every right to believe there was nothing illegal because they were allowed to do it for years. Plus they list everything that comes included on the Kodi FireSticks, which means Amazon saw nothing wrong with it. Which means, even they believed it to be legal.
@@ChocolateMilkCultLeader Amazon is a business distribution and marketplace. The same laws apply to Omar as it does to Amazon. Amazon does not pay taxes either!
That car analogy isn't accurate because it assumes Omi was directly stealing revenue from the owners of the content. I'd say that's highly unlikely as Omi's customers would have never bought the real thing. You already needed a jailbroken device to watch and the ppl with that were pirating content anyways. A much more accurate analogy would be Omi comes along and clones your custom car and is selling versions if it to ppl who take the bus.
It doesn’t matter whether they would have paid the original owners or not. You’re not allowed to monetize someone else’s intellectual property without their permission. Even your own analogy would be illegal. You couldn’t make a replica Honda and get away with selling it because you’d be infringing on Honda’s design.
@@rathelmmc3194 Except it actually wasn't illegal, you couldn't store and resell copyright materials there was no law preventing the live streaming of said materials as when you're streaming you're not storing or saving anything. This is further illustrated by the fact they just recently established a new law prohibiting the livestreaming of copyright materials. It's the companies own fault their IP wasn't sufficiently protected from newer ways of viewing. This is why they can lobby for their interests and challenge/change laws.
@@Noadvantage246 there are laws on rebroadcasting work and it is illegal to do that. There was a potential grey area on whether the law considered streaming as rebroadcasting. Clearly by the spirit of the law it is and they have since rectified the law, but that doesn’t mean you can get away with it prior to the change.
You can tell if you've been watching Omi for a long time that he's a actually a good dude with a big heart. He is 100% being made into an example right now with this situation.
@@coolitnow0013 True, but Omi wasn't shaking people down for their last dime. He provided a cheaper alternative service for people that wanted to watch shows/movies, etc. without breaking the bank. His lawyer will have to show how good he is with this case. Time will tell though. I personally like Omi and think he's a good dude.
Well technically... It's like waking up one morning and seeing your car in your driveway intact, and the same car in neighbors driveway. Because the neighbor figured out a way to duplicate your car without actually taking it away from you. Which is why people like him will always have a following, because it is not "theft" in the classic sense.
You’re using that analogy in the perspective of a consumer who’s using the bootleg device. Mark is using it from the perspective of the cable companies.
The IRS actually says you have to pay taxes from everything, that includes all illegal monies gained. The IRS actually says you have to pay taxes even if you are a lying thief, embezzler and so on. It is the law period.
The car in the neighbors driveway is a great metaphor... a better one would be, "Imagine working on your art and someone else just copies it and sells it for much cheaper... without cutting you in nor telling you a thing".
@@jonathanmarvens kinda... the music industry in a monster in itself... they can do that because they get paid a small "advance" and then charge your more interest than should be legal... but they get something
it's sad because photo and animation artist experience this all the time. Too bad they don't have Congress and FBI agents to go after after people illegally selling their work.
China does this alll the time to fashion designers and now have even stolen from smaller fashion creators online, biggest scandal is that shen company. The law is the law, Cant retroactively claim it, thats BS
@@ViceVersaYT Agreed! They've been doing this for decades... from big names to little ones. I unfortunately bought fake shoes from a retail store! To say I was upset was an understatement. No IP should be stolen/duplicated for any reason
“I’m making 100 bands to 100 bands every other day. I was seeing M’s too many millions but I don’t want to get into detail” FBI- that’s all we needed thank you
I feel like the analogy is a bit off. Stealing a car from someone is taking there property and they don’t have it anymore. Steaming cable would be different as the cable company still regains its channels it’s more like your neighbor using your WiFi to sell things. Still a great video
It would be like renting out a neighbors guest house without their permission and leaving it exactly as you found it (so no direct loss to owner). However the difference here is, if that person lives in another state and is trying to rent out the same property but every time you rent it out, they are unable to do so. So you are taking revenue from the owner. All the people using this product are getting the content for free which means they are not paying the companies so they are loosing money. It's same as me posting movies on my channel. I did not actually take anything from the company. I have my own copy of the movie that I'm making available to others. However, the more people watching for free or at a reduced cost, the less money the copyright holders make.
Idk, I think it’s kinda excessive that they’re literally taking his entire life away. If it was anyone that wasn’t in the public eye, it’d be a huge fine. They’re making an example of him
Plus, fuck the major cable companies. They can eat shit. They’re the true criminals. Omi was just being a Robin Hood. And I benefited majorly by using Gears TV for years, I probably saved thousands and I’m not ashamed of it
@@trenboloneytony7609 Robin Hood my ass, this guy is just a run of the mill thief. He stole other people IP and making money out of it. You can pirate stuff all you want but when you get caught, don't try to justify it by claiming you're sticking it to the big guy.
@@MrSamPhoenix still seems weird to retroactively punish someone since the legislatures weren’t able to write it down correctly before hand. That’s like adjusting a contract after it’s signed. Even if it’s a messed up loophole you have to get the contract right before hand.
@@allett19 What he did wasn't illegal at the time but he's stepping on the toes of the billion dollar corporations that lobby whatever they want to be recognized as law. It's in the best interest of the industry to make an example of someone to prevent further theft.
As an employee of one of the companies impacted by all this, I find it fascinating. He will certainly have a lot of public support. Good content as usual Spence.
Omi illegally stole content and customers from tv companies that do business legally. Example: You go to Walmart and steal an Xbox. You then go and sell it to someone for half the price. Sure he's helping you save money. Which is probably why he has supporters but that doesn't justify him stealing from Walmart.
@@billmadison9010 boo hoo. The hundreds of thousands of dollars will surely put a dent in the billions these corporations earn every year. 🤣🤣🤣 It's wrong to steal from them, but it's alright if they scam you, take your money, offer you the world and give you bullshit.
Spencer, lets face it. He ran a business and found a loophole. Cable providers didn't like it and are making an example out of him. After all, Spencer, you don't run a business based on hard work. Your business runs on the fame of someone elses.
Spencer played a huge role on exposing real fake gurus that scam people to the core and using illegal methods as well as giving empty promises. If you just discovered this channel, you might have a good look on what this channel uncovers.
I'm not defending the man, he will certainly pay the price for his transgressions (as he should), however and to be more specific and elaborate on my previous comment, his personality doesn't necessarily fit the typical criteria of an arrogant, conceded and egotistical scam artist that you typically see, especially on this channel. Additionally, he isn't running from it like other scam artists do. Bernie Madoff is a bad dude. Jay Mazini is a bad dude, etc...This guy played the system but he is standing up like a man and he's going to take his punishment for it (which I am sure is coming) and, again, as he should but, no question, the guy will deserve a second chance, comparatively speaking when he comes out of this. He is a likeable human being IMO from a personality perspective, it seems, was my point.
He will get some charges BUT most of the laws didn't exist for streaming so any good lawyer will kill them. Some will stick, this should be a plea tho.
If he was low key he would still b on top! When u rub shit in the FEDS FACE they make an example out of u. Omi a good guy hopefully he comes from under this.
Spencer, I’m not a Omi fanboy, but I think this case is very unfair to him. Back when he was doing this, everyone was doing it (just not at the scale he was). I’m not saying that makes it okay (the law is the law), but he wasn’t scamming anyone. They’re obviously trying to make an example out of him. I honestly feel bad for him
The thing is he was on borrowed time and promoting it. I’ve never heard of the guy but they are definitely making him the fall guy. Also attorneys will lie to your face even if you pay them.
He's not scamming but he definitely stole from other people. Saying other people also does it won't stick in the court. He stole and he got caught, end of story.
"he wasn’t scamming anyone" Why do you say that? Scam is: "a dishonest scheme" Do you think it's honest to exploit a loophole in the law and make millions from it, then pretend like what you are doing is legit? If he thought it was legit, why is he asking lawyers if it's legit? If you started a business and are not doing anything wrong, would you keep asking lawyers if it's legit? Would you also be concerned about if it's legit or not, but then never speak to the people who you are potentially scamming? IF it's illegal he would know it would be on a basis of copywrite. So why not contact the copywrite holders instead of just asking a person who works for you? This is just like Trump. When people like a person, it's hard to see the truth. A gangster with tattoos who is loud and looks the part could do a scheme that gets them $500 total and would get a lot of negative feedback from the public as a "worthless criminal thug". A likeable guy does it and the apologists come out.
@@thedebatemechannel4746 I’m not sure why you wrote all of that just to say a whole bunch of effectively nothing. I have no dog in this fight. I’m not a Omi fan nor do I “like” him, as you assumed. I’m indifferent. I just think the Feds are being unfair to him comparable to other cases. It’s clear they’re trying to make an example out of him. It appears to me that Omi’s biggest mistakes were (1) not paying Uncle Sam as he should’ve and (2) flexing too much (the downfall of most of today’s attention-hungry generation). It doesn’t make sense that tons of folks were engaged in similar activities and the Feds are going so hard on this one guy
Ok I hate scammers but this guy just seems like a chill dude. Free tv streaming comes on our smart TVs. So somebody took what he did and ran with it the only thing he was missing was permission lol
Omi a genius, never mind the naysayers and flashing comments. Truth is He found a very loophole in the value chain and exploited it, and served his customer base a premium service at a discount, a win win for both sides. Ingenuity at its best
He's a shrewd businessman no doubt about it, I just wish he would have taken some precautions to fly under the radar so as not to catch the fed's attention.
and what did it lead him to for finding this imaginary "loophole"? you can say never mind the naysayers, but the naysayers are indeed correct. truth hurts
The car example is a false equivalence. If somebody borrows your car, it depreciates in value & you can't use it in the meantime. I can't really think of a better analogy myself that would apply to the average person, but I still don't think it's fair to equate piracy with stealing somebody's physical property.
It’s not exactly the same but the spirit is the same. A product has only so much monetization. Taking someone else’s work to monetize is stealing their revenue stream.
You create something, you own the copyright to that thing. That thing is worth millions of dollars via licensing agreements, etc. Someone uses a "loophole" in the law to take that thing and sell it. They provide you with no compensation for that thing. Is that theft? Theft is theft.
Out of all the hot hit pieces, this one has to be the worst depiction of them. I see how he stole, but I see also he did provide product and service. Don’t like the point of comparing his service/ product to stealing a car. I see a man trying to make it.
Makes no sense to get an arrested warrant and utilize so many agents when they're in touch with Omi and or his lawyer. All they had to do was ask to turn himself in, period. Seems like someone isn't happy he's dropping his new shoe line and still making it.
Its a black man. The system is going to treat him like the biggest drug dealer in the city and plaster his face on the news regardless. Meanwhile the Pirate Bay guys are completely anon
i agree with you, what he did was illegal and he should be punished to the letter of the law. but in this instance everyone feels sorry for him because he comes across like a cool dude compared to other rich guys, on social media, which is super refreshing, and he ultimately stole from big faceless corporations. secretly we ALL wish we could stick it to the man like he did, but i fear Omi did this to himself, if he wasn’t so braggadocios and inconspicuous with his spending habits a part of me feels like he wouldn’t be in so much trouble. but then again who am i to say, for a few years he got to live most peoples dreams, with the cars and houses etc, even if the run was short he did it and no-one can take that experience away from him 🙌
What he was doing wasn’t illegal. They changed the laws to make it illegal after they indicted him. He simple found a loop hole in how the laws were written. I dont like how Spencer isn’t making that very clear in the video. Spencer is saying what he did is illegal simply because he took the big companies content but in actuality the law didn’t say what omi was doing is exactly illegal. If you want to say it was unethical then thats your opinion but he technically didn’t break the law but due to his skin color I doubt the “ justice system “ will be on his side regardless on what the actual law says
To your point in thinking it’s funny when ppl incriminate themselves - I agree but that’s a caveat we always come across..”I wish he’d just own up to it!” Vs “man he’s dumb for saying he did it”. Imo Omi was always under the impression that his big fuck up was not paying the right taxes. Turns out it’s much worse and the feds weren’t giving him any info on that matter which is what drove him into depression (he’s not that savvy in that area as we can tell by now).
The cable company actually restreams from satellite providers. The new law keeps small cable companies from forming. You keep saying he stole from cable providers according to the old law he was running under; he was the cable company. You have to understand the first cable companies were just taking antenna transmissions and provide if customers out of range of those transmissions a way to obtain the content, such as this that live in a valley or in rural areas. Since the antenna transmissions were public domain the cable company can charge for the device even though technically they are receiving it for free. The infrastructure involved in providing the cable service costs money and so it’s not even unethical to charge. Omi was operating under that law, that had not been updated. Bankers and stock brokers do similar grey area dealings and use the law to their advantage. As of 2020 this is now illegal but as Omi said this is actually a civil matter to be dealt with in civil court between the satellite providers and himself. This is not a criminal case.
*Nice video though...buh why is no one here talking about Bitcoin.. now's the best time to buy the dip and it's gonna be a changing for a lot of lives🇬🇧🇬🇧*
Imagine comparing sharing digital products to stealing someone’s tangible property. This guy is definitely part of the “You wouldn’t download a car” crowd. Lmao
Seems like he had a point. If the law was written in a certain way and he designed his business to not violate the law then he's good. Corporations do it all the time, usually to harm individuals, so nobody should complain about individuals doing it even if it hurts a corporation.
Almost everyone I know uses IPTV, which pretty much gives you all sports, movies, ppv, pretty much everything you can think about, for $10.... Some of the stores selling the boxes and the subscriptions sell it in the open, there stores look like professional cellphone stores and the only thing they sell is this illegal streaming service. Some locations have easily 10k customers, that's 100k a month, asked the guy at the store "isn't this illegal", he smiled and said " no one cares "...
I understand your point, Spencer. I am always with you as well as supporting your channel, but with this one I am on his side. For now. He has come this far, he could do better such as getting rid off all those cars and helping some kids who is in his situation when he was a kid. And start a fair , legit business. I hope he could figure out soon.
Omi is a good dude. Lots of others were doing it and omi got caught. He should pay some fines and give money up. But he doesn’t deserve jail time. He hurt nobody.
Was it totally legal, No. Should he get the same amount of time in Jail as violent criminals. No. I think alot of this could have been avoided with the absence of his TH-cam channel and Paying his taxes on time. Still love Omi to death, he made something of himself against all odds 💪🏾
Every politician connected to making laws launders money but when a man used hard work and talent to make money using a smarter service they can make a law 4 years later and take everything he has. It’s despicable.
“Long sausage of the law” 😂 Brother, that’s more like a steel rod. Good luck to this guy trying to beat this case. You got a better shot at digging a tunnel under your house to China. I have a feeling they’re gonna make an example of this guy.
I think the reason people take his side is because he wasn't hurting anyone but corporations. Ceo's who get millions in bonuses a year from gouging people who struggle to make ends meet.
Being rich isn’t enough in today’s world people need to be famous, that’s where OMI went wrong.
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I agree, but doesn't money make you famous too? I say that sometimes it goes hand in hand.
@@superkripto8681 not at all money does not make you famous not even a little bit he made a conscious decision to become famous and post his life on Instagram and TH-cam. I hope he gets off but yeah I know tons of rich guys that have 0.0 fame
We are social creatures ... some just do it bigger than others.
@@benjamin7114 Actually there’s people that are perfectly comfortable not being famous and staying under the radar especially people Omi’s age
Cable companies have been taking advantage of the public for decades via an unfair monopoly. I have no remorse for them. I wish Omi the best.
You're right but you're not gonna win a fight against a corporation. By that same logic America takes advantage of it's citizens via income taxes, so what are you gonna do? There are some fights you just can't win whether you like it or not. That's life.
how do they have unfair monopolies? There is so many stream providers, cable providers and other type of providers that allow access to TV shows. Those cable companies pay smaller less know production companies money to be shown on their channels. Omi used pirated software to hack into the providers and stream those shows and not give any money back to those production companies. Those companies are loses money. It isn't the cable company that suffers its the smaller companies trying to make legit businesses that now don't get there shows picked up again due to lack of funding from cable companies. They see that those shows aren't worth the price and move onward due to less views.
@@fighterpimp you are being obtuse. the amount of money to compete with cable providers makes the marketplace a monopoly. especially when said providers are owned by mega corps that can afford to pay lawmakers to keep the marketplace & laws in their favor. I guess it's fine for corporations to use "loopholes" but not for a regular citizen for you eh? FYI. You'll never be in the 1%.
so true
Exactly what I was thinking
I'm actually impressed by the scale and the amount of money he was able to generate, should have kept his mouth shut and stayed off of social media and he'd be sitting somewhere on an island paid for the rest of his life
he also should've paid his taxes and he would've been set don't forget that's the whole reason aside the priacy that they on him
Or moved and live in a country where he could not get charged for what he was doing. Asia is full of copyright-infringing companies.
A lot of them mass-produce Major Name Brand Products and sell them to countries other than the USA.
Check out the Fake Markets selling Name brands dirt cheap in Viet Nam, Thailand, and other Asian countries...
This is the lesson he is really trying to teach. Get your money, keep your mouth shut then run. He didn't do that and will seriously regret once the wrap this case up.
Nah. That's for the "legal" criminals, politicians, corporations, "Royal" families, Bezos', Musk's, etc etc. They don't pay taxes, prey on "cattle" etc etc. We are the livestock, we are not to profit unless through "hard work", or "wise investments"
These morally higher ground goofs are a bit annoying.
He should of have people pay by the year in crypto instead of Monthly via US dollar would of kept his bank accounts smaller and less of a target
let's just be honest.... they're making an example out of him.
Exactly. Those same corporations coming after him are the main ones to exploit loopholes, that benefit themselves and disadvantages others, all the time. The only difference is that the government tends to look the other way when they do it. Especially since the government is on their payroll.
They're going hard on him because he ain't in their boy's club and they gotta make sure anyone else coming up, who isn't in their club, get the idea of what can happen if they get too uppity from outsmarting the corporations.
10 seconds in all I could think was “of course when the black guy does it they come after him and ruin his reputation” Meanwhile the Piratebay guys are completely anonymous.. Dude should of kept his head down
100% People still buy Hot firesticks. The colleagues are NOT being arrested or being charged I wonder why
Of course they are. This is no different from Napster. If you look at Pay Per View and don't pay, you know you're stealing it. You can argue whatever you want but you know it's not legit. If you're going to make a killing taking advantages of loopholes like that and you rub it in people's faces, they're going to get mad. People steal services all the time and no one cares or gets in trouble, but you brag about "Look how much of a baller I am" - that encourages others and others so who the hell wouldn't get upset. It's so easy to call other people greedy for not wanting their shit stolen, but let someone tap into your electrical line and cable line (which is a very good analogy for it), no big deal, drives your costs up a tiny bit but no big deal. Now let 15 people share your electric water and internet, they use all they can b/c it's free, at some point it chokes off yours and you have to spend more money to even keep things working. Now Imagine these same people packing it and selling it "Don't be a sucker paying Electrical, Cable and Cell Service, pay me $100.00 a month and you can get all three (but they sell the lines into your stuff). Would you be pissed off? Then you ask them to stop and they call you greedy and have people jeer at you.
I bet every single person in this thread that is criticizing the companies or saying No Big Deal would absolutely be infuriated if the same thing was done to them
@@bon1bon Because the colleagues weren't on social media flaunting their wealth and bringing attention to themselves.
Seriously Dude, I promise he’s got a high priced attorney and none of them would ever recommend he do press interviews while under indictment. Remember, nothing you say can help you in court, but everything you say will be used against you.
Lol he is admitting all his illegal deeds by saying it's not.
He loves the attention, he can’t help it.
People will judge him if he doesn't talk and people will judge him if he does. It's a lose lose situation .
@@SidewaysInTraffic The only people who matter at this point are the people who can actually judge him which is a Jury and Judge. He is worried about the wrong kind of judgement.
Anyone tainted by what hes said to the press would be excluded from jury selection, if you're a "public figure" you probably would want to have some control of the narrative knowing this..
I like omi. He’s a business man at the end of the day. He just hit finessed corporations and not regular ppl… like corporations do. Smh
lol l unless God saves him he gone get washed. Done for life. Thjis is morbid humor sorry but he did interviews
No he stole
Not all corporations do that mate
@@monke1663 most do mate
He’s a business man? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 scamming people ain’t a business , it’s called fraud .
At least he didn’t try to sell some silly course on how to stream 😅
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It’s coming soon
Dude theyre gonna wash him. He is goijng to come out thge feds an old man.
Seriously? 😂 down playing at its finest 🤮
+ net neutrality. Cable companies like Comcast have spent millions lobbying to eliminate net neutrality which is a MUST HAVE for a free and open internet.
He probably would still be doing this, if only he tried to stay low and humble. His flashing jewels is what ended his run. Lol.
Yup
It has nothing to do with humility in my opinion, there's no correlation between having nice things and not being humble, my best guess would be all that real estate didn't sit too well with quite a few people.
real gs move in silence
That part!
Trying to be flashy catches them every time.
Seems like a likable guy. He provided a service from people that wouldn’t have paid anyway Too bad he didn’t know the law. He is guilty but he wasn’t hustling poor people.
He knew the law…. He knew that it was legal and yet illegal… making it a grey area…
But I thought he made people buy for his service, just cheaper than the original? Or am I mistaken?
@@juleswin7116 what he was doing at the time was not illegal… not in the way you think it was… he found a loophole and exploited that loophole…. At that time it was not illegal to be able to stream your paid content…..so long as it was paid … he basically streamed his paid services for others to see….at that time not illegal…. It would be illegal if he hacked or cracked cable boxes dish network boxes and gave out free content that’s illegal… but you setting up a stream network for your tv was not illegal at all. It should be illegal… but it wasn’t at that time.
@@gm4ulkill he got rich from it though so I thought he was benefiting from it
@@juleswin7116 still at that time not illegal not in the way he went about it. It was a grey area none the less… so all this he should have known and most likely did know that he was gonna eventually go through the courts…. Greyhat might as-well be black hat…….
Ugh. I'm super conflicted about this one. I could care less about giant multi-billion dollar CORPORATION getting scammed. I used to work at a call center contracted by one of those cable providers and they would constantly make us try to upsell the customers on "digital" products that had no real utility or physical value, create "trouble tickets" for a technician to be at the home only for that technician never to show up. In my opinion, I think these cable providers are malicious to begin with.
Fuck Comcast and the rest of em
FAX
My only issue with this statement is that a corporation is ultimately an aggregate of PEOPLE. So ultimately it's 'stealing' from people. With that being said, there's probably a way to do cable better... Which isn't being found on the providers end.
If the cable providers don't exist, neither does the cable TV service. So, if that becomes the case... Would folks such as Omi and others find ways to deliver TV shows for the same cheap price? You don't simply do that by decoding a signal.
I'm
Doesn’t matter wrong is wrong
I haven’t paid for cable since 2004. It’s a living dinosaur technologically. His only mistake is that he didn’t pay his protection fees to the kingpins in the boys club.
It’s a rip off, you pay to watch those shows but still gets bombarded with ads anyways
I haven't paid for music or films since 2002 😂
The cable companies control the internet too though. At least in my area. You can use a cheaper option sure, but the speeds are almost as bad as dial up. So you are almost forced to pay Spectrum which is stupid expensive
@@heissteveland758 I worked for a cable company. Most users do not realize that something like 70% of the revenue gets reinvested back into the network. It is incredibly expensive to maintain the infrastructure, but more importantly to increase the speeds like they have in the past 20 years is crazy expensive . My first broadband connection in 2002 was 100 kbps for like 80 a month. Today for 80 a month I get 150 mbps. That’s 1000 times speed increase for less (there’s been inflation in the past 20 years) money. No single tech has improved this much and gone down in price ever in human history.
@@JudgementalGoat I haven't paid for music or films since 1998.
Sorry dude, I'm with Omi on this one, if there was a loophole and he found it and made money, kudos to him. The companies you're trying to make us sympathize with, do they exploit loopholes in tax systems and avoid paying bucketloads of their rightful share of tax? Do they use loopholes to exploit their employees? Do these telecom companies exploit loopholes to provide shitty service, after taking payment from you? Don't bother to answer, the questions were rhetorical
To explain with your example, if somebody had their car stolen by their neighbor because they found loophole in the law, would I feel aggravated on their behalf? No, not really... if that somebody had bought that car, paid for gas by themselves exploiting loopholes and screwing over the society at large.
@Jimmy Nagger lol Fr this guy just typed 3 paragraphs about loopholes this guy broke multiple laws not just a little loop hole
Yup fuck corporations. All the excuse I need.
Man it wasn't no loophole he stole they bribe politicians to make legislation in their favor and pay hella taxes and donate millions to campaigns
@Jimmy Nagger the internet has made this generation feel like everything should be free because of how easily accessible so many things are. It will get worse before it gets better.
This fool knew he was breaking the law. And you are a fool and show how ignorant of the law you and the other morons are.
I have no sympathy for cable companies because they have spent billions of dollars lobbying against improving the network infrastructure across America, money that could have actually been used to... You know... Improve the network infrastructure of America.
Omi might have found a loophole in the law but when you're playing against the major corporations it's impossible to win.
agree
Your point?
i have no sympathy for anyone stealing, whether it be big cable companies or people like Omi who tried to finesse and do literally the same thing those cable companies were doing to you.
Because Cable companies are the only ones who lose? FOH. What Omi did affects way more than Cable companies.
Thank you
This is the first fraudster you’ve covered that I like. I think it’s because he’s honest (mostly) and not aggressive
Plus he's scamming corporations....who cares about them
@@yungpalos agree with you both. He’s both likable and attacking scamming corporations who scam us everyday. I’m wishing him the best. And he seems like he’s willing to pay it back so let him pay it back but to put him in jail for this seems overkill.
Yeah seems like a really cool and nice guy honestly haha
This is what I was feeling too. I mean obviously illegal stuff going on but I don't hate his face like most everyone that's been covered on this channel.
@@IGot7RevtinyArmyStayOnceBlink which in turns to ppl like Omi also scamming us. The more scammers the higher we end up paying the cost. We the consumers always foot the bill when others scam.
He seems like a really nice, sincere guy.
I’d have signed up for his service if I knew about it. Screw cable companies.
Omi did not follow the first rule.
STOP BEING FLASHY!
Imagine if he has STFU and did not have 30 cars in his driveway bringing unwanted attention.
I think old buddy is about to do a "coupla bands" in time in prison.
True
He's seen M's.... Too many M's.
@Barron Yup, His problem was YT! Keeping up with the Jones to remain poppin' on YT.
He lowkey snitched on his colleagues too 😅
@Barron he spent more money on buying cars for his videos then he got paid by TH-cam by double or more
Frank Lopez advice to Omi: The guys that last in this business, are the guys who fly straight. Low-key, quiet. But the guys who want it all, chicas, champagne, flash... they don't last.
And what the fuck happened to Frank?
@@gandr.e.5136 12 gauge in the back ???
Even if he wasn't "flashy", the TV company's IT department would've caught on. He might actually get off if he has a good lawyer.
make sure you last the guys with the girls and champagne lived their life and had fun you on youtube commenting because you lame in real life if a man came from nothing and made money he suppose too enjoy it because no day is certain you didnt go through their pain for them so stop talking about what people do with their money you aint paying nobody bills grown people are free too do what they want
@@gandr.e.5136 his wife gave him a flashy jacket that he didn't really want yo wear is what got him investigated....women can be a mans downfall sometimes....stick with your gut feeling
Companies hire teams of lawyers just to find loopholes am I supposed to be upset that the little guy did the same? Not at all. His ingenuity is amazing. Hope he comes out on top.
he didnt find any loopholes its illegal
This shouldn't be criminal, this should be up to the corporations to sue him.
Eh the government has to protect corporations as major employers.
Yeah, I agree. This sounds like a civil matter, not criminal.
The tax fraud are likely why the government is stepping in.
It is criminal, there are anti piracy laws. We all got those FBI warnings but he didn't listen
@@AzqatoStreams Then they wouldn't have him on copyright infringement
Also he would have lost EVERYTHING by now if it was tax involved
Morality and legalities are two different things.
Reading these comments so many of these people don't understand that. They keep mentioning rich people and corporations, exploiting loopholes is not illegal, breaking laws on the books is illegal.
It's not immoral to pirate content from huge corporations and share it for free.It is immoral for him to charge for it though.
@@KNByam What he did wasn't illegal at the time but he's stepping on the toes of the billion dollar corporations that lobby whatever they want to be recognized as law. It's in the best interest of the industry to make an example of someone to prevent further theft.
@@rdy3733 yep he should have made quick money and then got out instead he flaunted it..sold the app but still recieved money from the website. Guess what the feds will take down all of you and take everything haha and slap a nice 10 20 30 year sentence with a grin on there face.
Is it MORALLY wrong to “steal” from large corps who earn their money from theft and deception? That said, I’m not condoning his behavior. He took a gamble, it paid off. He should have overpaid on his taxes, and should have had a very clear exit strategy that involved accumulation of assets all over the world, and of all different types. There are Wall Street guys who have gone to jail for a white collar crimes, did there seven years or so, and exited prison filthy rich. He had to have been willing to trade some time in jail to come back home filthy rich.
As many others have said in the comments I actually like this guy. He’s ripping off multi-billion dollar corporations who scam, rip off and feed propaganda to folks and have been for decades. Dare I say it this man is based. I wish my dude luck
It's ironic that he gets pursued for tax evasion by taking content from many companies that use corporate loopholes to avoid paying their taxes. The moral of the story is that he didn't go big enough to hire better tax accountants and corporate lawyers to fight for the law to be written to have a loophole for him.
Why blame corporations for using loopholes to pay less taxes?
Do you want to pay more taxes than you have to??
Keyword: LEGAL* loopholes. 99% of corps that avoid paying taxes do so legally.
Exactly and he shoulda had multiple lawyers especially if he had that money idk how he got a lawyer with a license poor excuse
@@melo6099 😂😂😂
@Whyyoumadatfacts? 🤷♂️ I dont see whats funny about legal loopholes anyone can use to pay less taxes. Stay ignorant.
The only reason I think Omi is in trouble with the FBI is because of his channel when you see somebody with all of his cars, buying cars every day you’re going to have the FBI look into you. FBI is on TH-cam, Twitter everywhere.
Fk the fbi
When you are saying that you don't pay your taxes.......
People reported him to the FBI. That's why they know
I think he’s going to go down with the IRS too.
His taxes would have gotten him. Tax invasion.....
Omni, telling all his business
Sit in the court and be his own star witness
Do you see the perpetrator? Yeah, I'm right here!🤷🏿♂️
Exactly. Diarrhea of the mouth.
Well in my opinion he wasn’t scamming people he was helping them while scamming the corporations. Not saying that’s okay but he’s good in my book.
Yea I agree with u on that fuck the corporations lol
Hero
Only the corporations are allowed to do that
Exactly. Also Spenser comparing Omi’s misappropriation of a digital good (which is infinitely replicable and NOT unique) to that of a physical good (ie a car) is a bit hilarious.
Imagine we millennials feeling bad for corporations...fck dem
I really hope this man gets off. Like I have no empathy for the big companies. I really believe he didn't know he was doing anything wrong. But *we* can't follow those same loopholes. He never lied or scammed people.
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I would have burned every single car and house to the ground, ran off with the money I could take out and fled to a non extradition country. Companies and the government should be the ones who get fucked for once.
I admire his honesty regardless of his actions ......most would not admit being in wrong ...ever!
He asked his divorce attorney, during a divorce meeting, a question about money laundering and piracy. And he is surprised that he got bad info?
Yoooo 🤣🤣🤣💀
Exactly, that won't stand up in court. A divorce lawyer one likely didn't know and two certainly didn't care
The lawyer was looking out for his fellow lawyers. Lawyers love when people get in trouble. It's how they get payed.
The divorce itself was likely a laundering tactic, to try to move half of his assets out of the line of fire, when the heat came on.
Lmaooo
He wouldn’t have been caught if all he did was stop being flashy. If he all he did was buy a nice house in the burbs, a nice Honda or Toyota fully loaded, no social media or limited social media presence then he’d have been fine and only the corporations would have come after him for a few hundred thousand.
Go be broke somewhere else puss
Naw he would have been fine if he paid his taxes on time. 30M+ should have had multiple lawyers and accountants, that's how you know people don't know how to act with new money.
Thinking that flashy cars is what brought this guy down, rather than a shady accountant and an obvious affront to one of America's most successful industries, is naive. It's the kind of ignorance that makes you an easy mark. ("How could you arrest me?! I never flaunted my illegal wealth!!!")
He was making a lot of money from TH-cam too. $50k a month. It’s the taxes that got him.
@@griffithf.k.4136 yeah, there a lot of low-key dudes in prison too lol
I’m with Omi on this one.. he found a glitch in the system and got rich off of cable companies who make their money exploiting loopholes and customers. At least Omi provided an actual product, unlike other scammers. I feel like his flashy lifestyle played into this, but he can get past it and make his money from YT.
In his defense, I don't give a shit about copyright infringement and tax evasion : the guy looks like a black Kim Dotcom, he provided a service, he wasn't out there scamming or ruining people's lives.
There is a Robin Hood clause when it comes to "debatably" ripping off notoriously awful companies including cable providers.
I have already made money by sharing copyrighted content on streaming websites that I made and I never had a problem with it
Robin Hood clause?
Dont remember robim hood beeing 300 kg and having 30 cars
Agreed
@@dominic667 i guess your kind of right, but omni stole content from the large tv companies charging high prices to give the less fortunate. So in that sense he would be Robin hood, since robinhood stole from corrupt governments charging high taxes on the citizens. But him flashing all of his jewellery and cars would not be something Robin hood would do
Cable companies aren’t ripping you off though. They’re forced to pay the content creators the rates they want. You’re stealing from the content creators. Now you may not have ethical issues with it, but you are wrong. People want to be paid for their work and you have the right to not pay them, but you don’t have the right to steal their work to consume it. And you definitely don’t have the right to monetize someone else’s work.
Your analogy of stealing your neighbors car compared to taking some streams from HBO are hardly a good comparison. I could care less if someone takes a few million back from a billion dollar corp who overcharges for their junk.
If you think they're overpriced get a cheaper subscription or find a cheaper competitor. 🤷 why be a thief
CORRECTION !! He’s not a thief…The thieves are the cable companies that over charge you for their services…so get that right !!
He's very much a thief. If you don't like cable don't watch or pay for it
@@ungwungboozia8797 The biggest thief is the cable company…if you want to be that stupid, keep paying your cable bill and let the smart ppl get the same service for way less !! 😎✌🏼
As someone who knew nothing about this man at all before, it seems to me like the only thing he REALLY did “wrong” was make money when he wasn’t supposed to.
Plenty of companies are comfortable skirting minor misdemeanor laws and consider the fines cost of doing business.
But this dude wasn’t part of the group allowed to win so they’re dropping the hammer when it would be civil penalties if a Wall Street firm did something wayyyyyyyy worse.
Edit: I just realized this is basically the 2010’s version of using the old school antenna to grab signals out of the air for free and showing it to some friends. This is a civil violation at best.
Difference is he was making money off of it.
Showing it to friends =/= mass marketing it and selling for a profit
Yup. Totally agree the difference is selling and making money off it.
That makes it a CIVIL penalty which would allow the companies to sue him and get an injunction to stop him.
This is a drastic overreach to make it criminal
@@austinhansen9079 i understand your point
I think nobody would have batted an eye (mostly because nobody would have noticed) if he had invited some friends over to watch some illegally streamed TV.
However, if you make double-digit million profits selling access to the networks, you should expect someone come knocking on your door eventually.
If im a scammer im not running from the police...Im running away from Spencer Cornelia!
Good one
This dude is saying, "I'm here snitching on myself. Come and get me." lol
@Howie Feltersnatch your funny… not
Omi's loophole is the equivalent of Bubbles stealing shopping carts by pushing them into a ravine so that they become "abandoned".
People keep saying "if he didn't post all his jewelry and cars he wouldn't have gotten caught!" Do you really think one guy buying up 300 different properties wouldn't have put him in their radar just as quickly?? Lol
i mean honestly bro, in the real estate game stuff changes, MANY real estate deals are purposely obscured, especially commercial properties.
we’ll see.
@@jeremylawson6648 It doesn't seem like he made any effort to obscure his property purchases. The paperwork had his name on it along with him talking about it publicly. Feds wouldn't miss something that glaring.
And him not paying taxes on 30 million. Govt expect you to pay taxes on a couple of thousands lol. They would have still gotten him even if he never made a video
He should've left the country. Odd, he seems to be business savvy.
@@jeremyzeeky3024 lol naw the feds ain’t missin no shit like that 😂
He also has found a loophole to bypass cardiac arrest already.
hookers and blow
Bruh 😂😂😂
very mature, commenting on this mans appearance
@@blindfaith2934 he took up most of the screen, it was hard to be "blind" towards it 😌
That’s a good one 💀
He was actually a solid businessman. I respect his hustle and ingenuity.
Literally wasn’t a businessman. He is a theft lol
@@Burrgametate Yeah he was stealing from big corporations that are constantly shafting the people. He's a solid guy honestly
@@klash3532 it be more honorable if he was taking that money and giving it to those in need. He wasn’t, he was flexing on the gram and telling YOU he was a legit businessman. How that make him a solid guy???
@@Burrgametate Yeah he's not fucking Robin Hood, is that really the bar for a solid guy? He was basically just gouging the cable companies who have spent billions lobbying so that they can keep these insane prices and terrible deals for everyone else.
This guy Gave the public access to everything for a fraction of what these scummy corporations charge. He is a solid guy because his company saved millions of dollars that would've gone to the cable companies' billionaire owners.
@@klash3532 no he sold illegal back door programs for profit, that the only sole purpose of those programs were to steal content from a cable providers. I know people that run illegal streamer sites for years now and the only thing that happens to them, because they make zero profit on the copy righted content. Is a slap on the wrist and site gets taken down after about 12 months of being up. So they just make another site and do the same thing. It is actually a loophole. What he was doing is not a loophole.
I really have trouble feeling bad for the cable companies.
I think that them changing the law after the fact might get him off.
Cable TV probably won't even exist in a few years, and I see this as them trying to cash out before the big fall.
Agreed idk how to feel bad for corporations as a millennial
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Do you feel bad for people who lose their jobs due to layoffs? Employee’s lost their jobs off what this guy did.
@@shlidgn90 i feel even worst when they swallow up smaller companies & lay off all their staff....fck these corporations
Exactly. I actually like him and I’m hoping the best for him. I do not feel bad for scummy corporations like the cable industry. Not at all.
He misunderstood his lawyer, he said "Omi, what you are doing... No... That's illegal!"
Yet he didn't go get a new lawyer. He's lying lol
Hard to get mad when hes just scamming massive corporations who, in turn, specialize in scamming regular ppl
“Ignorance is no excuse for the law”
Also hilarious that the people defending this guy in the comments are the the same people shouting “Eat the rich”
This guy needs to keep his mouth shut , he is just making the fed job easy by giving this unnecessary interviews.
Seriously lmfao
Let’s go Brandon!!!
He is not one of the .01 % trying to own you. There is a difference . The politicians work for that .01% and do their bidding.
Legit.
I hate mega media corps, and I'm fine with people stealing their content.
With that said, it's illegal, and there's good reason for it to be illegal.
Idiots in here saying it shouldn't be a serious crime?
Ah, ok. So if you ever develop a product, or make some really good music, I guess Sony should march in and steal all your music, sell it and make millions, and you get nothing.
Rigghtttt.
Why was not Amazon charged for Theft, when they provided the actual devices for theft?
Amazon is a platform. They have different rules
It is like you buying a knife at walmart then you commit a crime. Walmart is not at fault for your actions.
IF I provide you with a gun because Im a gun store and you kill someone, Im reponsible for that death?
Ofc not, if someone misuse the product that you sell him, its totally their fault.
Actually you’re all wrong. Amazon has an obligation to make sure that what people are selling on their platform is legal. And they have a process to review everything that is sold. So all these different “stores” that were selling the Kodi sticks had every right to believe there was nothing illegal because they were allowed to do it for years. Plus they list everything that comes included on the Kodi FireSticks, which means Amazon saw nothing wrong with it. Which means, even they believed it to be legal.
@@ChocolateMilkCultLeader Amazon is a business distribution and marketplace. The same laws apply to Omar as it does to Amazon. Amazon does not pay taxes either!
This young man found a loophole and exploited The hell out of it.
That car analogy isn't accurate because it assumes Omi was directly stealing revenue from the owners of the content. I'd say that's highly unlikely as Omi's customers would have never bought the real thing. You already needed a jailbroken device to watch and the ppl with that were pirating content anyways.
A much more accurate analogy would be Omi comes along and clones your custom car and is selling versions if it to ppl who take the bus.
🤔 Makes sense
Yes. I agree. Good analogy.
It doesn’t matter whether they would have paid the original owners or not. You’re not allowed to monetize someone else’s intellectual property without their permission. Even your own analogy would be illegal. You couldn’t make a replica Honda and get away with selling it because you’d be infringing on Honda’s design.
@@rathelmmc3194 Except it actually wasn't illegal, you couldn't store and resell copyright materials there was no law preventing the live streaming of said materials as when you're streaming you're not storing or saving
anything. This is further illustrated by the fact they just recently established a new law prohibiting the livestreaming of copyright materials. It's the companies own fault their IP wasn't sufficiently protected from newer ways of viewing. This is why they can lobby for their interests and challenge/change laws.
@@Noadvantage246 there are laws on rebroadcasting work and it is illegal to do that. There was a potential grey area on whether the law considered streaming as rebroadcasting. Clearly by the spirit of the law it is and they have since rectified the law, but that doesn’t mean you can get away with it prior to the change.
You can tell if you've been watching Omi for a long time that he's a actually a good dude with a big heart. He is 100% being made into an example right now with this situation.
The best conmen tend to be the most like able its part of their game plan.
@@coolitnow0013 True, but Omi wasn't shaking people down for their last dime. He provided a cheaper alternative service for people that wanted to watch shows/movies, etc. without breaking the bank. His lawyer will have to show how good he is with this case. Time will tell though. I personally like Omi and think he's a good dude.
@@matthewfischer4510 He stole. This is a HUGE deal. He is going to prison for quite a long time.
I don’t think he’ll go to prison. Especially if they want him to pay restitution and granted he still has money left.
Al Capone was likeable too
Well technically... It's like waking up one morning and seeing your car in your driveway intact, and the same car in neighbors driveway. Because the neighbor figured out a way to duplicate your car without actually taking it away from you.
Which is why people like him will always have a following, because it is not "theft" in the classic sense.
You’re using that analogy in the perspective of a consumer who’s using the bootleg device. Mark is using it from the perspective of the cable companies.
@@zangvangit’s still duplicated compared to being missing
The IRS actually says you have to pay taxes from everything, that includes all illegal monies gained. The IRS actually says you have to pay taxes even if you are a lying thief, embezzler and so on. It is the law period.
Exactly which is crazy. Like if I'm doing something illegal I really want to tell the IRS lol
The IRS is a cartel that exists to extort the American people.
I think they even have a special form for that 😆
The car in the neighbors driveway is a great metaphor... a better one would be, "Imagine working on your art and someone else just copies it and sells it for much cheaper... without cutting you in nor telling you a thing".
Arguably, that’s what the entertainment industry already does
@@jonathanmarvens kinda... the music industry in a monster in itself... they can do that because they get paid a small "advance" and then charge your more interest than should be legal... but they get something
it's sad because photo and animation artist experience this all the time. Too bad they don't have Congress and FBI agents to go after after people illegally selling their work.
China does this alll the time to fashion designers and now have even stolen from smaller fashion creators online, biggest scandal is that shen company. The law is the law, Cant retroactively claim it, thats BS
@@ViceVersaYT Agreed! They've been doing this for decades... from big names to little ones. I unfortunately bought fake shoes from a retail store! To say I was upset was an understatement. No IP should be stolen/duplicated for any reason
“I’m making 100 bands to 100 bands every other day. I was seeing M’s too many millions but I don’t want to get into detail”
FBI- that’s all we needed thank you
Not our usual fake guru. I like this guy cause he’s upfront and honest (about what he does).
But hey. Uncle Sam is Uncle Sam
His honesty might add to his downfall. Lawyers are gonna milk this interview.
I feel like the analogy is a bit off. Stealing a car from someone is taking there property and they don’t have it anymore. Steaming cable would be different as the cable company still regains its channels it’s more like your neighbor using your WiFi to sell things. Still a great video
Yeah, your analogy is more apt.
No it's like them taking your Wi-Fi service and selling it to everybody in the apartments and claiming they found a loophole for Wi-Fi
As long as it doesn’t disrupt my WiFi quality I wouldn’t care(:
never want wifi unlocked because you don't want weird people looking at CP don't need cops around they might find real gangster shit
It would be like renting out a neighbors guest house without their permission and leaving it exactly as you found it (so no direct loss to owner). However the difference here is, if that person lives in another state and is trying to rent out the same property but every time you rent it out, they are unable to do so. So you are taking revenue from the owner.
All the people using this product are getting the content for free which means they are not paying the companies so they are loosing money.
It's same as me posting movies on my channel. I did not actually take anything from the company. I have my own copy of the movie that I'm making available to others. However, the more people watching for free or at a reduced cost, the less money the copyright holders make.
If he would have paid his taxes on the money he was making, there would not any cases brought up against him.
Idk, I think it’s kinda excessive that they’re literally taking his entire life away. If it was anyone that wasn’t in the public eye, it’d be a huge fine. They’re making an example of him
Plus, fuck the major cable companies. They can eat shit. They’re the true criminals. Omi was just being a Robin Hood. And I benefited majorly by using Gears TV for years, I probably saved thousands and I’m not ashamed of it
Its not "his" life if all that stuff was purchased with other peoples content. "His" life is whatever he had prior to any criminal profits he made
@@trenboloneytony7609 Robin Hood my ass, this guy is just a run of the mill thief. He stole other people IP and making money out of it. You can pirate stuff all you want but when you get caught, don't try to justify it by claiming you're sticking it to the big guy.
If you pay for your lifestyle with illicit gains then yes they will take everything.
If you make your money from illegally selling stuff, then yeah, no question his shit should be taken
You want him to be punished accordingly against laws that don’t exist is really weird.
They’re changing the laws to punish him & others who would be so bold as he is.
@@MrSamPhoenix still seems weird to retroactively punish someone since the legislatures weren’t able to write it down correctly before hand. That’s like adjusting a contract after it’s signed. Even if it’s a messed up loophole you have to get the contract right before hand.
@@allett19 agreed
@@allett19 What he did wasn't illegal at the time but he's stepping on the toes of the billion dollar corporations that lobby whatever they want to be recognized as law. It's in the best interest of the industry to make an example of someone to prevent further theft.
@@allett19 The man is a crazy for flaunting the millions he stole.
Omi: Those people gotta pay me, i sold it to them. They owe me my money.
Comcast/Dish: Definition of Irony....
“FBI, I’m innocent. The other guys were doing the same and I’m the only one caught” is a defense that it always works in court. (Sarcasm)
that's more like the defense you use to become an informant for the FBI to get less to no time.
As an employee of one of the companies impacted by all this, I find it fascinating. He will certainly have a lot of public support. Good content as usual Spence.
Lmao like they were really impacted haha. Yeah, right.
@@NotOnDrugs Your joking right?
Omi illegally stole content and customers from tv companies that do business legally. Example: You go to Walmart and steal an Xbox. You then go and sell it to someone for half the price. Sure he's helping you save money. Which is probably why he has supporters but that doesn't justify him stealing from Walmart.
@@billmadison9010 boo hoo. The hundreds of thousands of dollars will surely put a dent in the billions these corporations earn every year. 🤣🤣🤣 It's wrong to steal from them, but it's alright if they scam you, take your money, offer you the world and give you bullshit.
@@billmadison9010 * You’re
He should of put his money into Bitcoin and put it into a cold wallet, and he would of been good, but hey who am I?
Spencer, lets face it. He ran a business and found a loophole. Cable providers didn't like it and are making an example out of him.
After all, Spencer, you don't run a business based on hard work. Your business runs on the fame of someone elses.
Good point
Doesn't matter, he found a loop & is going to jail for it
Facts! He found a loophole and they hate it 🤷🏾♂️
Facts!
Spencer played a huge role on exposing real fake gurus that scam people to the core and using illegal methods as well as giving empty promises. If you just discovered this channel, you might have a good look on what this channel uncovers.
The streaming loophole was fixed earlier this year so he will probably beat those charges but tax evasion and lying to the bank will get him.
Cable companies are bad but that doesn’t mean this guy is an angel for screwing them over.
Shame is that he doesn’t seem like all that bad of a dude. No question he’ll pay the price, however!
@T Free how was he bad , you the type to pray on people downfall
@@yurp3745 dawg, are we watching the same video?
I'm not defending the man, he will certainly pay the price for his transgressions (as he should), however and to be more specific and elaborate on my previous comment, his personality doesn't necessarily fit the typical criteria of an arrogant, conceded and egotistical scam artist that you typically see, especially on this channel. Additionally, he isn't running from it like other scam artists do. Bernie Madoff is a bad dude. Jay Mazini is a bad dude, etc...This guy played the system but he is standing up like a man and he's going to take his punishment for it (which I am sure is coming) and, again, as he should but, no question, the guy will deserve a second chance, comparatively speaking when he comes out of this. He is a likeable human being IMO from a personality perspective, it seems, was my point.
He will get some charges BUT most of the laws didn't exist for streaming so any good lawyer will kill them. Some will stick, this should be a plea tho.
@T Free you're the bad person. not me
"the long sausage of the law" I love how spencer works in hilarious unexpected lines in these videos.
If he was low key he would still b on top! When u rub shit in the FEDS FACE they make an example out of u. Omi a good guy hopefully he comes from under this.
Spencer, I’m not a Omi fanboy, but I think this case is very unfair to him. Back when he was doing this, everyone was doing it (just not at the scale he was). I’m not saying that makes it okay (the law is the law), but he wasn’t scamming anyone. They’re obviously trying to make an example out of him. I honestly feel bad for him
The thing is he was on borrowed time and promoting it. I’ve never heard of the guy but they are definitely making him the fall guy. Also attorneys will lie to your face even if you pay them.
He's not scamming but he definitely stole from other people. Saying other people also does it won't stick in the court. He stole and he got caught, end of story.
"he wasn’t scamming anyone"
Why do you say that?
Scam is:
"a dishonest scheme"
Do you think it's honest to exploit a loophole in the law and make millions from it, then pretend like what you are doing is legit? If he thought it was legit, why is he asking lawyers if it's legit? If you started a business and are not doing anything wrong, would you keep asking lawyers if it's legit? Would you also be concerned about if it's legit or not, but then never speak to the people who you are potentially scamming? IF it's illegal he would know it would be on a basis of copywrite. So why not contact the copywrite holders instead of just asking a person who works for you?
This is just like Trump. When people like a person, it's hard to see the truth. A gangster with tattoos who is loud and looks the part could do a scheme that gets them $500 total and would get a lot of negative feedback from the public as a "worthless criminal thug". A likeable guy does it and the apologists come out.
@@thedebatemechannel4746 I’m not sure why you wrote all of that just to say a whole bunch of effectively nothing. I have no dog in this fight. I’m not a Omi fan nor do I “like” him, as you assumed. I’m indifferent. I just think the Feds are being unfair to him comparable to other cases. It’s clear they’re trying to make an example out of him. It appears to me that Omi’s biggest mistakes were (1) not paying Uncle Sam as he should’ve and (2) flexing too much (the downfall of most of today’s attention-hungry generation). It doesn’t make sense that tons of folks were engaged in similar activities and the Feds are going so hard on this one guy
@@justinhenryrebel Correct
his only crime was being to flashy - the feds have to make a example of him now
Ok I hate scammers but this guy just seems like a chill dude. Free tv streaming comes on our smart TVs. So somebody took what he did and ran with it the only thing he was missing was permission lol
I used gears. I paid 25 a month….for every single channel you could ever think of. It was a great service! I would have paid more
Omi a genius, never mind the naysayers and flashing comments. Truth is He found a very loophole in the value chain and exploited it, and served his customer base a premium service at a discount, a win win for both sides. Ingenuity at its best
He's a shrewd businessman no doubt about it, I just wish he would have taken some precautions to fly under the radar so as not to catch the fed's attention.
Actually other people found the idea and he copied it. People have been doing this for decades
and what did it lead him to for finding this imaginary "loophole"? you can say never mind the naysayers, but the naysayers are indeed correct. truth hurts
The car example is a false equivalence. If somebody borrows your car, it depreciates in value & you can't use it in the meantime. I can't really think of a better analogy myself that would apply to the average person, but I still don't think it's fair to equate piracy with stealing somebody's physical property.
Yeah, I didn't like that example either
It’s not exactly the same but the spirit is the same. A product has only so much monetization. Taking someone else’s work to monetize is stealing their revenue stream.
So the better example using the car is that he steals a car from the neighbor every day.
You create something, you own the copyright to that thing. That thing is worth millions of dollars via licensing agreements, etc. Someone uses a "loophole" in the law to take that thing and sell it. They provide you with no compensation for that thing. Is that theft? Theft is theft.
@@RichardBaran Except for the revenue(money) from that stream. So in essence property(money) has been stolen.
I was gonna laugh when he said they’re taking away people’s livelihoods but then I thought about how much my Xfinity bill is and had to agree with him
Out of all the hot hit pieces, this one has to be the worst depiction of them. I see how he stole, but I see also he did provide product and service. Don’t like the point of comparing his service/ product to stealing a car. I see a man trying to make it.
Imagine we millennials feeling bad for corporations lol
100
Real talk. Ingenuity at its best, and was able to put food in his and many other mouths
@@yungpalos lol I’m genz and I don’t think any of us should be feeling bad for companies. This dude is good in my book.
If you steal your neighbor’s car everyday to be an Uber driver, you couldn’t justify it by saying you’re providing a service.
That man is gonna snitch on whoever to save his own butt
He's dry snitching on video.
The min he mentioned his "colleagues"as the min i knew he was gonna snictch
So this dude is the digital version of the guy selling burned DVD’s on the street/flea market. And he earned “M’s” doing this? Crazy!
The most amazing thing about him is…….HE KEEPS MAKING VIDEOS TALKING ABOUT HIS CRIME😬🤡🤡🤡🤡it’s like he doesn’t have a lawyer to tell him to SHUT UP 🤔
The feds know everything already, it’s not like he’s snitching on himself. 🤣💀
@@matthewnava7973 yup
Makes no sense to get an arrested warrant and utilize so many agents when they're in touch with Omi and or his lawyer. All they had to do was ask to turn himself in, period. Seems like someone isn't happy he's dropping his new shoe line and still making it.
The Feds always do this to scare the people they are going after and remind everyone who has the power.
Have to take precautions the nicest people sometimes fly off the handle.
Its a black man. The system is going to treat him like the biggest drug dealer in the city and plaster his face on the news regardless. Meanwhile the Pirate Bay guys are completely anon
This isn't the movies feds come in blazing
standard practice and security theater
Lmfao at “Slapped by the long sausage of the law” 5:05 😂😂
i agree with you, what he did was illegal and he should be punished to the letter of the law. but in this instance everyone feels sorry for him because he comes across like a cool dude compared to other rich guys, on social media, which is super refreshing, and he ultimately stole from big faceless corporations. secretly we ALL wish we could stick it to the man like he did, but i fear Omi did this to himself, if he wasn’t so braggadocios and inconspicuous with his spending habits a part of me feels like he wouldn’t be in so much trouble. but then again who am i to say, for a few years he got to live most peoples dreams, with the cars and houses etc, even if the run was short he did it and no-one can take that experience away from him 🙌
What he was doing wasn’t illegal. They changed the laws to make it illegal after they indicted him. He simple found a loop hole in how the laws were written. I dont like how Spencer isn’t making that very clear in the video. Spencer is saying what he did is illegal simply because he took the big companies content but in actuality the law didn’t say what omi was doing is exactly illegal. If you want to say it was unethical then thats your opinion but he technically didn’t break the law but due to his skin color I doubt the “ justice system “ will be on his side regardless on what the actual law says
To your point in thinking it’s funny when ppl incriminate themselves - I agree but that’s a caveat we always come across..”I wish he’d just own up to it!” Vs “man he’s dumb for saying he did it”. Imo Omi was always under the impression that his big fuck up was not paying the right taxes. Turns out it’s much worse and the feds weren’t giving him any info on that matter which is what drove him into depression (he’s not that savvy in that area as we can tell by now).
“Slapped with the long sausage of the law”
You, sir, have a gift - you’re the Shakespeare of Smackdown 😂
The cable company actually restreams from satellite providers. The new law keeps small cable companies from forming. You keep saying he stole from cable providers according to the old law he was running under; he was the cable company. You have to understand the first cable companies were just taking antenna transmissions and provide if customers out of range of those transmissions a way to obtain the content, such as this that live in a valley or in rural areas. Since the antenna transmissions were public domain the cable company can charge for the device even though technically they are receiving it for free. The infrastructure involved in providing the cable service costs money and so it’s not even unethical to charge. Omi was operating under that law, that had not been updated. Bankers and stock brokers do similar grey area dealings and use the law to their advantage. As of 2020 this is now illegal but as Omi said this is actually a civil matter to be dealt with in civil court between the satellite providers and himself. This is not a criminal case.
Spencer is being true to his goblinoid physiognomy and simping for his elders.
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Imagine comparing sharing digital products to stealing someone’s tangible property. This guy is definitely part of the “You wouldn’t download a car” crowd. Lmao
"I don't want to get into details because I'm fighting a case."
Continues telling his business on camera🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
attention is everything for some people
“Oh neighbor you’re always finding loopholes.” 😅 what an understanding neighbor.
Seems like he had a point. If the law was written in a certain way and he designed his business to not violate the law then he's good. Corporations do it all the time, usually to harm individuals, so nobody should complain about individuals doing it even if it hurts a corporation.
Almost everyone I know uses IPTV, which pretty much gives you all sports, movies, ppv, pretty much everything you can think about, for $10.... Some of the stores selling the boxes and the subscriptions sell it in the open, there stores look like professional cellphone stores and the only thing they sell is this illegal streaming service. Some locations have easily 10k customers, that's 100k a month, asked the guy at the store "isn't this illegal", he smiled and said " no one cares "...
i never heard of this
Wow I’ll look into it
@@inferno3080 You've never heard of IPTV?
Yeah they arrested a few people inside some flea market in Tampa not to long ago for that
where do u find these store?
I understand your point, Spencer. I am always with you as well as supporting your channel, but with this one I am on his side. For now. He has come this far, he could do better such as getting rid off all those cars and helping some kids who is in his situation when he was a kid. And start a fair , legit business. I hope he could figure out soon.
lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Omi is a good dude. Lots of others were doing it and omi got caught. He should pay some fines and give money up. But he doesn’t deserve jail time. He hurt nobody.
Man...I see this as exploiting a loop hole. And huge corporations lost some crumbs. I hope he gets off.
Was it totally legal, No. Should he get the same amount of time in Jail as violent criminals. No. I think alot of this could have been avoided with the absence of his TH-cam channel and Paying his taxes on time. Still love Omi to death, he made something of himself against all odds 💪🏾
He’s already snitching without dropping names. He’s knows EXACTLY what he’s doing but crying cuz he got popped and other got away
Every politician connected to making laws launders money but when a man used hard work and talent to make money using a smarter service they can make a law 4 years later and take everything he has. It’s despicable.
Dude is living a Grand Theft Auto lifestyle
true lol
“Long sausage of the law” 😂
Brother, that’s more like a steel rod. Good luck to this guy trying to beat this case. You got a better shot at digging a tunnel under your house to China. I have a feeling they’re gonna make an example of this guy.
I think the reason people take his side is because he wasn't hurting anyone but corporations. Ceo's who get millions in bonuses a year from gouging people who struggle to make ends meet.
Following same logic, Why don't they do anything for billionaires who are paying such a low amount of taxes through same loopholes.
We get it, you're ignorant
Legal procedings are complicated. Even more so for tax laws.
Percentage wise they pay low amounts in taxes but a lot of them don’t actually earn incomes
Because they can easily pick on the guy who came from nothing.
@@trenboloneytony7609 why make such an ignorant comment? Dude broke the law.
I’ve been waiting for you to drop this one.
We knew it was coming
"He thought he found a loophole that'll keep him from being slapped by the long sausage of the law" 🤣 had me dieing🤣
Spencer out here defending scummy corporations smh