Tag: IPTV
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IPTV Came Under Fire in 2019 & In 2020 It Maybe All Out War
2019 saw IPTV services became the target of Hollywood and even criminal prosecutions around the world. These services often advertise crazy low prices with hundreds of TV channels. The providers have claimed to be operating in a legal grey area but Hollywood seems to not be interested in this argument. We saw lawsuits and even…
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IPTV Services Generate Millions in Profit from Piracy
Recently we have seen Hollywood and even the United States government turn their eyes to IPTV. These small illegal streaming services offer access to hundreds of live TV channels for $20 or less a month. Many had wondered why the recent and very harsh crack down on IPTV owners has been happening. As it turns…
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Hackers Threaten to Post IPTV Subscribers Personal Information
Today the IPTV service Helix Hostings was reportedly hacked. Helix Hosting is an IPTV provider that offers access to popular TV channels for a low price. Now, according to a message posted on their website, they have been hacked and if they don’t pay up the hackers will post resellers and subscribers’ personal information online.…
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DISH Wants IPTV Sellers to Hand Over Subscriber Names
Did you subscribe to one of several popular IPTV services including MFG TV, Beast TV, Nitro TV, Murica Streams, Epic IPTV, Vader Streams, and OK2? DISH is trying to find out who you are. This all comes from an IPTV reseller called Boom Media. The company sold many popular IPTV services here in the United…
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IPTV Service SETTV Will Pay Millions in Damages from Piracy Lawsuit
A federal court in California has just ordered IPTV service SETTV to pay over $7 million in damages from a piracy lawsuit from The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. Torrent Freak reported that ACE, which represents names like Amazon and Netflix, was behind the lawsuit against SETTV last year. The original complaint claimed that “Defendants market…
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The IRS Is Going After IPTV & Piracy Service Owners
Last week several government groups started to go after IPTV service owners. These services often offer a large number of channels for a low price. In recent years content owners have been suing IPTV services, but now it seems the war on IPTV and piracy has moved into a new phase. The IRS has recently…
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DISH Sues 6 IPTV Services for Copyright Infringement
This week the war on IPTV heated up as police in Spain raided an IPTV operation and here in the states, the FBI raided the owner of the IPTV service Gears Reloaded. Now DISH has sued six more IPTV services running with multiple domain names along with 15 John Doe defendants according to a TorrentFreak…
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The FBI Just Raided The IPTV Service Gears Reloaded
The war on IPTV services has been picking up around the world. Now the FBI is getting involved and has raided the owner of the IPTV service Gears Reloaded who goes by the name OMI IN A HELL CAT on YouTube according to a report from TorrentFreak. After the fall of Set TV NOW following…
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Police Shutdown an IPTV Supplier Running Multiple IPTV Services
Today Spanish National Police announced that they have conducted a raid to dismantle an IPTV reseller system worth a reported €1 million. Spanish police say they hope this raid put a dent in the supply chain that re-sold their services to multiple IPTV services according to TorrentFreak. Spanish Police say they have arrested 12 people.…
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ACE Claims a Major Victory in The Fight on IPTV By Shutting Down Openload & Streamango
Today The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) announced that they have secured a major victory in the fight on privacy by shutting down file-sharing services Openload & Streamango. TorrentFreak was the first site to report the outages and ACE has now confirmed they are behind the efforts to shut down Openload and Streamango. According…