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Mastercard and Visa Under Pressure for ‘Enabling’ IPTV Piracy

posted by martyb on Sunday August 05 2018, @05:07AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:09AM (2 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:09AM (#717467) Journal

    Oh, it is the payment that is evil.

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:22AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:22AM (#717471) Journal

    Well, it's the only part that Visa and Mastercard handle, isn't it?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:26AM (#717472)

    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.