A Lower Earley man has avoided jail for running an illegal football streaming website that he set up when he was just 16.
Gary Goodger, 24, from Ratby Close, was given a six-month suspended sentence for copyright offences at Reading Crown Court on Friday.
His website, freelivefooty.com, made unauthorised broadcasts of live Premier League football matches and beamed them to subscribers worldwide.
He took the matches illegally from foreign satellite broadcasts using a 2m-wide satellite dish, seven computers and nine satellite decoder boxes.
The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) launched an investigation on behalf of the Premier League and supplied evidence to the Thames Valley Police Economic Crime Unit (ECU).
Numerous enforcement ?cease and desist? notices were sent to the website on behalf of the Premier League, but Goodger?s activities continued.
Sentencing, Judge John Reddihough said: ?I have no doubt you were soon aware what you were doing was illegal and you ignored correspondence and carried on and undoubtedly you made, not vast profits, but some significant gain from doing what you did.
?The fact there are a number of other websites conducting the same operation does not help you.
?It is for the court to pass deterrent sentences.?
He went on to say if it were not for mitigating factors of young age and previous good character he ?would have had in mind a custodial sentence?.
Goodger was convicted with his accomplice Jack Bannister, 23, from Burnley, Lancashire, in December following a six-day trial at Reading Crown Court.
Goodger was found guilty of one count of communicating a copyrighted work to the public contrary to the Copyright, Design & Patents Act.
He received 200 hours community service and was handed a fine of ?1,750.
Bannister, who was convicted of transferring criminal property under the Proceeds of Crime Act after he was hired by Goodger to process payments, was given 140 hours community service and ordered to pay ?500 costs.
Source: http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/news/s/2128031_illegal_football_streaming_website_inventor_avoids_jail
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