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: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 05 2018, @12:25PM (1 child)
Exactly. And, I'll go one a little better. I've built homes, which are generally more durable than a car. (not always, but mostly) I've built a paper mill, sawmills, a bridge, and more. Shouldn't I get paid for each structure for as long as they are in use? Homeowners, industry, and the department of transportation should be sending me monthly or annual checks. And, oh yeah - I worked on building that prison. Every prisoner in New Boston, Texas owes me for his occupancy.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:16PM
You forgot to mention controlling who they can and cannot sell to...