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Locked In with Ian Bick

Tech Pirate Unveils the Thrilling Story of Getting Arrested For Selling Jailbroken Fire TV Sticks

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Step into the thrilling world of a tech pirate as he reveals the dramatic tale of how he got busted by the cops for selling jailbroken Firesticks. Discover the risks, the undercover operations, and the high-stakes cat-and-mouse game that led to his capture. This electrifying account offers a fascinating look at the underground market for modified tech and the relentless pursuit by law enforcement to shut it down. Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Connect with Luis Gabriel: Buy his book: https://tech-pirate.com/products/jailbroken-a-true-story-of-corporate-overreach-police-abuse-of-power-and-modern-technology https://tech-pirate.com/products/jailbroken-the-audiobook Support Luis: https://gofund.me/1bfeba97 https://www.instagram.com/thetechpirate1?igsh=MWJ3NjF6bXpybnUwdw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr https://www.tiktok.com/@kingofthesticks1?_t=8oOy0dHXtwF&_r=1 https://snapchat.com/t/US8p1tqd https://tech-pirate.com/ https://tech-pirate.com/collections/all Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Buy Merch: https://lockedinbrand.com Use code lockedin at checkout to get 20% off your order Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:04:25 - Transitioning to the Schooling System in the United States 00:08:51 - Transitioning in Florida 00:13:21 - No Set Career Path 00:17:59 - From Pizza Flyers to Fire Sticks 00:22:29 - Selling Raspberry Pi Computers at the Flea Market 00:27:05 - Transition to Fire Sticks 00:31:38 - Explaining the Benefits of a Fire Stick 00:35:54 - Weird Requests and the Demise of DVD Sales 00:40:17 - Investigation and Raid at the Flea Market 00:44:52 - The Flea Market Incident 00:49:29 - Jail Conversations 00:53:53 - The Shocking Label of "Tech Pirate" 00:58:20 - The Imbalance of the Rich Versus the Poor 01:02:39 - Dealing with Legal Charges 01:07:13 - Rebuilding Reputation and Dealing with Smear Campaigns 01:11:40 - Book Launch and Work Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Maine agent who turned out to be a homeland sheriff department agent. And by the way, the agency was Polk County Sheriff's Department. So it was a sheriff department. It's just different agents from that department. So they take me back to a car in the flea market. That was the nondescript place we were going to do an interview. So I go back there with him. He reached me where I writes, and he's like, hey, man,

0:21.4

how'd you learn how to jail break fire sticks? And I'm like, what do you mean? What do you mean

0:25.4

jail break fire sticks? They're not locked. You can't jail break them. That's just a term. He goes,

0:29.0

no, well, you're getting free TV channels, and you found out a way to get movies, and how'd you do it?

0:40.4

Lewis, welcome to Lockton all the way from Florida, man.

0:43.8

I hope you had a good trip and welcome to Locked in.

0:47.3

Thank you.

0:47.8

Thank you so much for having me here.

0:49.6

It's definitely the first podcast I've ever done.

0:52.5

First time I've ever told this story.

0:55.4

So I'm excited. Oh, wow. This is your very first podcast ever've ever done, first time I've ever told this story. So I'm excited.

1:00.4

Oh, wow. This is your very first podcast ever. Very first podcast. And first time I've ever even told a story to anybody besides my wife and two family members. So. Yeah. When I saw your email

1:06.0

come through, I was like, wow, we've never had a story like this. And I just remember all of the people

1:10.7

when I was like, and going through my case would always say, hey, do you want a jail broken fire stick? You want this, you want that. I was like, this story is going to be killer. So we had to have you on the show. And you just tried out one of the Rick Flair energy drinks. Shout out to Rick Flair for hooking us up with the Wu energy drink. Did you like that flavor? Which one was that? Super good. This one's pineapple. Yeah. It's dope. I love all the flavors. Yeah, they're really actually good energy drinks. We're comparing it to some other energy drinks out there and a lot of people have energy drinks and it's just, you know, some of them are hit or miss. But Rick does a good job with his flavors. And again, shout out to Rick Flair for hooking us up with those. No doubt. Did you grow up in Florida? Yeah. So I was born in Puerto Rico in a town called Bayam, Puerto Rico. Me, my mom, my sister, and my dad, we lived there for about five years. And then we moved to, well,

2:03.1

my parents split. They went their separate ways and we moved to Florida, the United States. So I was

2:08.1

five. My sister was maybe three or four. And we moved up to central Florida, Orlando.

2:14.1

Oh, Orlando's nice. Yeah, no, Orlando's nice. Orlando's Disney World, Universal and all that, but there's definitely a rough side. Don't the residents get a discount to go to... 10%. Oh, that's it. Oh, shit. I thought it was better. 10%. Florida discount. I'm going to Puerto Rico next month. Really? First vacation in like over 10 years. Holy crap. Yeah, I'm

2:35.1

looking forward to it. Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun. I'm excited.

2:39.5

dope. Are you going to more specific? San Juan? I'm going to try some restaurants, just hang out.

2:45.9

I got to bring my phone because of work. Otherwise, I would say no phone, but I'm leaving my

2:50.0

laptop here and I'm just

2:51.4

relaxing for, you know, five, six days, and it'll be really cool. But isn't that a part of the United States, technically? It's a part of the United States. Yeah, it's a territory, you know, so you don't need a passport. You don't need anything extra. You just bring your license, bring your wallet and your cell phone

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