Tag: Piracy
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DAZN Ups Security Tech To Stop IPTV Services
DAZN is bolstering its anti-piracy defenses. The sports streaming service is teaming up with cybersecurity company, Irdeto, to use its forensic watermarking solution, Tracemark. The tool will help DAZN track security weaknesses in distribution channels and identify and disrupt individual pirate sessions and unauthorized streams, according to Irdeto. Piracy has become significantly easier in the…
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Google Removes Links to Pirate IPTV Services From Users’ Saved Links
If you’ve ever tried to find a show or movie for free online through Google — we know you would never — you’ve probably seen a note saying that some of the search results have been removed. Google can take down search results for pirate websites under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). While…
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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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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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A Massive IPTV Service Is Shutdown & The Owners Have Been Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison
Internet pirates, beware. International efforts have been cracking down on illegal IPTV streaming services this year. A recent court ruling shows how serious measures are taken to root out and shut down piracy groups. “The sentences handed down, which are the longest sentences ever issued for piracy-related crimes, vindicate the efforts made to bring these…
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Film Companies Want Reddit to Hand Over Users’ Information Who Commented About Film Piracy Over a Decade Ago
Reddit is fighting to keep private the identities of six members who discussed piracy on the forum over a decade ago. Film companies Bodyguard Productions and Millennium, amongst others, are demanding to know the names of these users, down from eight since their previous motion to obtain names, which was denied. Reddit is refusing to…
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The War on IPTV Services is Heating Up As AI is Being Used to Track Them Down Even on Social Media
The war on IPTV services has really been heating up over the last few years. Now DAZN, a leader in sports broadcasting, is teaming up with Videocites to use AI to find illegal sports streams even on social media. The plan is to use AI to detect illegal streams even if the video has been…
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The End of IPTV Service? ACE Has A New Partner To Stop Pirated IPTV Services
ACE and DAZN along with 52 other companies will work together with law enforcement to shut down piracy operations with the new ACE Sports Piracy Task Force.
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DISH Sued This Piracy Service in 2018 But Says Its Operators Are Still Running IPTV Services
In November 2018, DISH was awarded over $90,000,000 in damages from SetTV, a popular streaming app that offered hundreds of channels for just $20 per month, when it was determined that SetTV was illegally obtaining DISH’s broadcast and redistributing them to customers online. Now, DISH claims the operators of the service are back at it…
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Popular Piracy App Mobdro Taken Down, Four Arrested
Yet another illegal streaming service went dark recently and, after weeks of rumors that law enforcement was involved in the takedown of the Mobdro app, we now know more about what happened, thanks to a statement from Eurojust (European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation). “With the support of Eurojust, the Spanish authorities have taken…