Darryl and Luis have pleaded guilty for running large illegal streaming sites

Two men from Las Vegas pleaded guilty to to operating massive unauthorized streaming services that authorities say rivaled the libraries of Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu and cost copyright owners millions. The streaming sites that each offered tens of thousands of bootlegged TV episodes and movies.

Darryl Julius Polo, 36, pleaded guilty last week in U.S. District Court in Eastern Virginia to copyright infringement and money laundering charges for running iStreamItAll, an illegal online, subscription-based service that at one point carried nearly 118,500 TV episodes and almost 11,000 movies. He made more than $1 million from such operations, prosecutors said.

Polo admitted that he reproduced tens of thousands of copyrighted television episodes and movies without authorization, and streamed and distributed the infringing programs to thousands of paid subscribers located throughout the U.S.,” the Justice Department said in a statement.

Both Polo and Villarino admitted to using automated software and scripts to harvest pirated videos and make them available as streams and downloads across a variety of platforms -- effectively, they helped run Netflix-like services for ill-gotten goods.

Polo and Villarino will receive their sentences on March 13th and March 20th, respectively. While we wouldn't rule out the possibility of court battles, it may be more about the severity of their sentences than whether or not they'll be sentenced at all.