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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @06:45AM (9 children)
Is it illegal for Mastercard and Visa to process these payments and turn a blind eye to the activity? Looks like it's not. But they will probably cut people off to appease this pressure group.
If you want freedom, you won't find it outside of a blockchain.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday August 05 2018, @07:02AM (7 children)
Possible silly question, but how would they know?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday August 05 2018, @07:18AM (6 children)
Elementary.
By the use of the appropriate MIME type, as per RFC3514 [ietf.org] (page 3, the definition of the MIME type for the Web- or email-carried mischief).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday August 05 2018, @08:12AM (5 children)
Livestreaming by email?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @08:56AM (3 children)
Payments. By Web.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:09AM (2 children)
Oh, it is the payment that is evil.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:22AM
Well, it's the only part that Visa and Mastercard handle, isn't it?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:26AM
Its not so much a small payment that bothers me, rather its giving them my accounting and funds transfer credentials and agreeing to some long winded form that I don't really understand the exact legal interpretation of, that is, if I took an hour of my time to fish through the damned thing.
The easiest way around it for me is to do whatever I can to avoid sharing this kind of info on the net as much as I can, because I am finding it so hard to trust anyone. Even some big-name businesses seem to think little of fostering trust and will present their customer with reams of businesstalk and require the customer to accept responsibility to the entire wishlist of ambiguous legalese before a transaction can be consummated.
An anonymous download is a lot less risky than spilling my financial info to yet another entity that might misuse it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @03:04PM
Bonus points if you route the traffic over an IPoAC [wikipedia.org] interface.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @08:42AM
LOL. good humor before i go to bed.
Block chains are not anonymous, if anything they are the opposite. As soon as you interact with it they have the perfect nearly indestructible record of your transaction.
It's the same as some pseudonym name on a forum. Anonymous to the casual observer, because they don't know how easy it is to tie something to mr/ms canhazcheeseburger6895.
updating your offline wallet from your online one? that gives them your ip. Which is traceable to the isp, which can be solicited for lease records. Adding vpn's or tor just delays this.
Bought something with this? congratulations, they can now tie a physical address to that wallet one that leads right back to you. Doesn't matter if it isn't your home address. It's trivial to tie it to you no matter what address you put in because after all you 'want' what you bought right?