Pirate IPTV Ops See Damages Reduced By $7m, Admin Panel Evidence Fell ShortAndy Maxwell, 31 Jul 10:18 AM After receiving an anonymous tip in 2019, a
 | After receiving an anonymous tip in 2019, anti-piracy group Nordic Content Protection (NCP), and members including pay-TV company C More (previously Canal+), Warner Bros. Discovery and streaming service Viaplay, launched a pirate IPTV investigation. NCP received a similar tip in 2020, this time from police in the city of Gävle. They were passing on the details of another anonymous tip detailing the activities of a suspected pirate IPTV network. After a period of surveillance, which included wiretapping an unknown number of suspects, police executed warrants at two addresses, one in Gävle and the other in Sandviken. Two suspected operators were detained along with evidence that included 47 gold bars, an expensive whiskey collection, around $25,000 in cash, and roughly $41,000 in bitcoin. At the Stockholm District Court's Patent and Market Court in October 2023, the men were found guilty of criminal copyright infringement and sentenced to prison. They were also held jointly and severa...Read More | Internet infrastructure service Cloudflare serves millions of customers around the globe, providing various connectivity and security features. When it comes to DMCA takedown requests, the company has always drawn a clear line; when it doesn't store any content for a customer, it will simply forward DMCA takedown requests to the customer's hosting company. Ideally, rightsholders would like Cloudflare to take a more active stance. Since popular pirate sites, including The Pirate Bay, use the CDN service, they argue it would be helpful if Cloudflare disabled access to infringing content though its platform. Cloudflare, however, sees itself as a 'mere conduit' service that merely passes on bits. This means that it is not required to take action against third-party infringements directly, unless content is permanently stored on its servers, which is rare. DMCA Subpoena Rightsholders are well aware of Cloudflare's stance. While there have been plenty of complaints in the past, the stat...Read More |
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