The IPTV Crackdown Continues: A Thread For Customers Not Resellers

[dsayers2014]

Two and half years for a million quid?
If he'd robbed a post office or bank of £2000 he'd have got 15-20

which claimed to have 30,000 subscribers and netted more than £1m over a five year period. Investigators from the Premier League, West Mercia Police and anti-piracy organisation FACT also identified over 1,000 users.

Big difference to claiming 30,000 users to identifying 1,000 users. Probably a couple of hundred quid if only identified 1,000

 

[manic01]

30,000 subscribers and netted more than £1m over a five year period.
So £200k a year
Divided by 30000 subscribers
£6.66 per year off each sub?

 

[woody6222]

Two and half years for a million quid?
If he'd robbed a post office or bank of £2000 he'd have got 15-20

Aye he got 6months for selling the firesticks and 2yrs for watching his own.

 

[jigger121]

A wee bit closer to home :-- Man jailed for illegal streaming after netting £1m selling dodgy Firesticks

I stopped reading after it said end users got a knock on the door and face prosecution 🤣🤣

 

[pupuqiop]

30,000 subscribers and netted more than £1m over a five year period.
So £200k a year
Divided by 30000 subscribers
£6.66 per year off each sub?

They were Chinese subs

 

[manic01]

Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) Effectively Defeats Pirate Site Blocking * TorrentFreak

 

[cumu2003]

Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) Effectively Defeats Pirate Site Blocking * TorrentFreak

Lol, here's where cloudflare is owned by some law enforcement agency, and they doing all this to get the illegal stuff by making people go to them 🤣

 

[simonsuggs79]

A wee bit closer to home :-- Man jailed for illegal streaming after netting £1m selling dodgy Firesticks

ste mills from pika was around alot of years those lads,

 

[LeoMes7i]

Sky have a new advert on TV about illegal streaming saying your details could get stolen and to not stream Football online 😂

They had it on at half time yesterday when Arsenal played Man City

 

[pupuqiop]

Sky have a new advert on TV about illegal streaming saying your details could get stolen and to not stream Football online 😂

I've seen that. Looks like they mean business this time - they must have cracked the iptv encryption to put their own advert on there.

 

[Metrop]

So, yeah, im a newbie to all of this and wanted to comment on the Viark. Is it better to use Viark from my provider or should i just stick to my IPTV? Seems like there is a bit of different meanings to this

 

[manic01]

So, yeah, im a newbie to all of this and wanted to comment on the Viark. Is it better to use Viark from my provider or should i just stick to my IPTV? Seems like there is a bit of different meanings to this

Viark is a satellite box with very little iptv

 

[Kyser143]

So, yeah, im a newbie to all of this and wanted to comment on the Viark. Is it better to use Viark from my provider or should i just stick to my IPTV? Seems like there is a bit of different meanings to this

I would be surprised if your provider was able to supply you a viark lol

You need to decide you want to stay on iptv which am assuming u have all you need to watch it on.. or then buy a new viark box and load it with the good stuff ..also note you need a fully functioning sat dish to use the viark.

Decisions decisions 🤔

 

[a1gunner]

They probably did, and unless he personally managed to sell all 30,000 subs/firesticks, there's hundreds of resellers who didn't get fined or jailed

 

[userlee5267]

.https://cordcuttersnews.com/anti-piracy-coalition-shuts-down-massive-iptv-scheme-in-latest-crackdown/

Christ they like going on about old news 😂

 

[STINGER]

This is interesting news posted few days ago massive Firestick IPTV attack more than 30,000 subscribers -> Man made £1,000,000 from 'Firesticks' illegally showing Premier League football

Pikabox and Eyepeeteevee

Police and FACT officials visited a number of the customers who paid for the service and served notices to cease illegal streaming activities with immediate effect.

 

[STINGER]

2 Years Jail for a £1million operation
likely back out in under a year ...lol's

 

[thebesh]

Ultimately there is black market for loads of things. If people have the choice to buy products a lot cheaper than they can legally (alcohol, cigarettes, etc) then morals usually go out the window. For most people this is a victimless crime.

Music retailers were aghast when mp3's became more popular. They didn't want to change their business model and pursued stricter laws to stop people from downloading "free" music. They ended up paying the ultimate price. Goodbye Tower Records and many other high street record stores.

 

[simonsuggs79]

2 Years Jail for a £1million operation
likely back out in under a year ...lol's

was going a long time pika ,right back to clines on openboxes lol then changed to ownerslounge ,millys got of lightly w 2 years

 

[Metrop]

Ultimately there is black market for loads of things. If people have the choice to buy products a lot cheaper than they can legally (alcohol, cigarettes, etc) then morals usually go out the window. For most people this is a victimless crime.

Music retailers were aghast when mp3's became more popular. They didn't want to change their business model and pursued stricter laws to stop people from downloading "free" music. They ended up paying the ultimate price. Goodbye Tower Records and many other high street record stores.

This is actually interesting. Would I ever go into a store, steal a movie and then just run? No way I would. But on the internet? Somehow it changes a lot, since you are at HOME, and not in a store - therefor it feels more "safe" to do it there, but also, the human brain cant really "feel" the digital world.
You would feel way more rich, if you had a million dollar in cash, but reading that number on a screen?...Well, not so much.