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    Online piracy device heightens anxiety in Hollywood and Silicon Valley

    by Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times Nov 24, 2017 5 minutes

    Jeffrey and Carrla Goldstein seem to have all the makings of a power couple from a reality TV show.

    They host events for local religious groups at their mansion outside Atlanta, complete with a bowling alley and a mural of themselves posing with celebrities. A local news publication once referred to them as their community's "Brad and Angelina," and their twin children were reportedly featured on the TV show "Teen Cribs."

    But their ostentatious lifestyle has another side: A lawsuit accuses their company, TickBox TV, of being one of the most prominent and fastest-growing facilitators of online piracy. TickBox TV sells set-top boxes that promise free streaming of movies and television shows.

    Piracy has long been a scourge of Hollywood, but the emerging technology sold by the Goldsteins has heightened anxieties about the industry's vulnerability to copyright theft.

    TickBox represents a new

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