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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @08:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @08:09AM (#717451)

    Once people know how to kindle a fire, how does one enforce a patent on it against the little guy whose gonna do it behind your back?

    Isn't this a lot like enforcing "no wee-wee here" behind a bar, when they want a buck to use the toilet? Do that, and people will piss behind the building. In the bushes. Between the cars. It's human nature.

    Ok, so they force the IPTV provider to shut down... Back to Torrents? If they think I am gonna pay what probably want me to pay, I can't justify that kind of expense for something like a movie or a play of a song. Already, the stuff is so plentiful we will cull it out of the stuff we keep, and call it a "garage sale".

    This is one of those new memes that the MPAA has to accept, no different than the loss of our privacy and having telemarketers sharing lists on us is also something we have to accept, although we both use technical workarounds to frustrate the process.

    Note the subliminal image of a hipster type in their copy? When a kid tightly holding a toy..."Mine!!! Mine!!!" is a far more accurate depiction of what's going on here.