Crooks Founded Two ISPs to Hide Illegal TV Streaming Platform

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A group of criminals went as far as to register and manage two Internet Service Providers in two different countries in order to manage an illegal TV streaming platform that offered IPTV (IP Television) service to customers all over the world.

Dismantled this week by Europol, Eurojust, Spanish and Bulgarian police, authorities first learned of this group last year after a complaint from the English Football Association (FA), the soccer federation that organizes England's Premier League competition.

The FA filed a complaint against a currently unnamed Danish citizen, the owner of the biggest ISP in the town of Malaga, Spain.
An investigation by Spanish authorities followed, and police officers quickly discovered that the ISP was a front for an organized crime group behind a platform that illegally streamed over 1,000 TV channels via the Internet.

Spanish and Bulgarian ISPs behind the IPTV platform

Their inquiry also unearthed a partner for the Spanish ISP, another service provider, but this one located in the Bulgarian town of Silistra.

The investigation, nicknamed "Operation Casper," concluded this week after searches at 12 locations in Spain and Bulgaria and the arrest of eight suspects.

According to authorities, the two ISPs were legally established companies on their own, and besides being a cover for the illegal TV streaming service, also provided Internet access for their customers.

The ISPs worked together with several shell companies

Europol says the two ISPs used their technical capabilities to support the IPTV platform's backend, while a series of shell companies were in charge of distributing the illicit TV signals to end users via the Internet.

Last year, Cisco announced the development of a new technology called Streaming Piracy Prevention (SPP) that could detect and cut off illegal TV streams in mid-transmission.
 
there was a local guy that tapped a fiber connection (he used to work for the biggest fiber provider here) and started selling iptv and internet over fiber around his town. He had tons of clients and the service was better than the one from the owners of the fiber.

so... nothing new
 
yep gonna be a major crackdown in the near future i reckon only just beginning
 
It's like drug dealers, you take one down another pops up. As long as there's a way and money to be made someone will weigh up the risk and carry on regardless
 
It's incredible the inginuity of some of these criminals. I mean you are really dedicated to sucking all the juice you can when you set up and ISP to sell pirate cable TV service. I wonder if the ISP´s didn't come first and then someone just got the idea to make more money.

Some people will go as far as they can without regard to laws just to make a few bucks. I wonder if that inginuity could find a more productive use?
 
there was a local guy that tapped a fiber connection (he used to work for the biggest fiber provider here) and started selling iptv and internet over fiber around his town. He had tons of clients and the service was better than the one from the owners of the fiber.

so... nothing new

Anything is better than MEO or NOS!!
 
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