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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: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 05 2018, @09:01AM (4 children)
When do lawmakers wake up, and pass laws that imaginary property holders have no right to hold the entire nation hostage?
Silly question. Lawmakers won't wake up unless and until the constituents wake them up. That won't be easy. We'll have to overcome inertia to get any real changes made. Money flowing from Hollyweird into politician's coffers has a lot of inertia.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @12:11PM (2 children)
I get paid to fix a car.
Maybe I should start lobbying my Congressman so I can expect payments as long as that guy drives his car.
Without my creativity to repair his car, he would not be driving it, eh?
Proud Member of the Repair Industry Association of America.
(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.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(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...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Sunday August 05 2018, @03:55PM
Arguably "the market" is taking care of it. We grew up in an era of 200M population of which 40M people watch a popular TV show, and that industry is dying faster than brick and mortar retail, where the pinnacle of TV popularity in almost-2020 means 300M+ population where 10M or fewer viewers. Pretty soon you continue that straight line decline and you'll hit zero TV network viewers around mid 2030s. TV's culturally pretty much irrelevant already.
So... all the networks do bankrupt probably after completing their current trend of merging into one giant monopoly. Then what? All the IP laws in the world won't save them if they have no viewers to sell to advertisers. Maybe they'll stick to fake news and propaganda as a service (The new PaaS?) Not too many other revenue options for them, if they have roughly no viewers.