| Title | Mastercard and Visa Under Pressure for ‘Enabling’ IPTV Piracy | |
| Date | Sunday August 05 2018, @05:07AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the follow-the-money dept. | ||
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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