Tag: IPTV
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The War on IPTV Grows As Two IPTV Owners Sentenced to Prison Time For Running Illegal Streaming Service
The war on IPTV continues to grow as two new IPTV owners have been sentenced to Prison in Belfast Crown Court in the United Kingdom. This comes as the two were found guilty of selling IPTV services and pirate boxes designed to give illegal access to TV programs. The two men were accused of selling…
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3 Large Illegal IPTV Services Just Got Shut Down By Disney, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount, & More
Today, ACE or the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, announced that it has shut down three large IPTV services that streamed live sports online. ACE is made up of many major media companies, including Amazon, Apple TV+, NBCUniversal, Netflix Studios LLC, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, and Warner Bros. Late last…
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Premier League Steps Up War on IPTV With More Aggressive Crackdown
With the Premier League season underway, the English football league is cracking down on the illegal streaming of its matches by bolstering its legal team, blocking pirated feeds and launching private prosecutions, according to the Financial Times. Premier League general counsel, Kevin Plumb, told the publication that piracy’s online evolution forced the competition to assemble…
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IPTV Services Could Be Blocked By A New Law If The NFL, NBA, & UFC Get Their Way
Currently, if a content owner wants to take down an illegal live stream, they have to file a copyright claim known as a DMCA. Now, though, the NFL, NBA, and UFC say the process is too slow and want the takedowns to become instant. To do this, the NFL, NBA, and UFC have filed a…
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The War On IPTV Continues as A New Service Can Detecting Pirated Streams
A software company has created a digital watermark with the potential to stop illegal IPTV services, no matter how distorted the content is. The tool, developed by Berlin-based castLabs, uses single-frame forensic watermarking technology to protect digital content from pirate streams. The tech is unique as it protects every frame with an embedded watermark so…
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Reddit Doesn’t Have to Reveal Names of Users Who Pirated Content, Judge Rules
The film industry is going after IPTV pirates, but an attempt to gather information on them through Reddit has hit a legal wall. Twenty major studios requested user information for six Redditors who mentioned piracy on the forum in 2011 and 2018. On July 29, a California judge ruled that Reddit does not have to…
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DISH Network Slams IPTV Pirates With a Half-a-Billion Dollar Lawsuit
DISH Network and its subsidiary Sling won another hard-hitting copyright lawsuit against illegal IPTV streaming services, netting nearly half a billion in damages. This time, DISH took out SportsBay.org, SportsBay.tv, Live-NBA.stream, and Freefeds.com, all unlicensed sports streaming platforms operating under the collective name SportsBay run by Juan Barcan and Juan Nahuel Pereyra. By circumventing Sling’s…
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DISH and Sling Just Dealt A $5.7 Million Blow To IPTV Pirates
DISH and its Sling subsidiary won a major victory in the fight against video pirates, getting the nod in a massive lawsuit against IPTV box distributor Louisville Media Box. After a lengthy legal battle spanning back to 2021, Louisville Media Box was found to owe DISH $5.7 million in damages for illegally broadcasting and reselling…
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DISH Has a New Plan to Stop IPTV Piracy & Wins a U.S. Patent to Do Just That
Recently DISH Network has won a new patent for a way to make content on streaming and over traditional cable TV DVRs more secure. The hope is this system will make it harder for IPTV services to use DISH and other cable companies’ technology to illegally stream their content online. In short, DISH has built…
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The War on IPTV Continues As Internet Service Providers Are Ordered to Block Pirate Streams
It’s going to be a lot tougher to access illegal streams of Sky games and programming through an IPTV, thanks to a court order empowering the UK broadcaster to take the offensive against pirates. Last month, the UK High Court granted Sky an order that will allow the company to stop piracy in real-time. The…