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Mastercard and Visa Under Pressure for ‘Enabling’ IPTV Piracy

posted by martyb on Sunday August 05 2018, @05:07AM   
from the follow-the-money dept.

Fnord666 writes:

With help from dedicated hardware boxes, live streaming piracy has seen a massive user growth in recent years.

While there are hundreds of free live streaming sites and tools, there's also a huge market for paid pirate services, which charge a fraction of the cost of their legal counterparts.

One company that has kept a close eye on these developments is Irdeto. The anti-piracy outfit has assisted copyright holders and law enforcement on several occasions and has helped bring down some of the largest offenders.

However, the problem isn't going away, not even when criminal law enforcement gets involved. One of the problems is that it's relatively easy for pirate IPTV providers to operate in the open, helped by reputable payment processors such as Visa, Mastercard and PayPal.

This is one of the main conclusions of research published by Irdeto this week.

Source: TorrentFreak

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• Translation Translation (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday August 05 2018, @06:20AM (1 child)

  by c0lo (156) on Sunday August 05 2018, @06:20AM (#717443) Journal

  Today or in the near future, the major copyright owners are/will be major ISP-es too.
  Can't ask them to incur the extra cost of policing what their customers do, so... how about blaming piracy on the banksters? After all, it is there where the money is.

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• Re:Translation (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:20AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:20AM (#717470)

  I believe that's the only way they are gonna stop it.

  KopyRight Krap reminds me of the Keystone Kops.

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