Man Who Sold £400K of Pirate IPTV Subscriptions Handed Suspended Sentence

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A man who generated income of around £400,000 by selling pirate IPTV subscriptions has been sentenced by a court in Cornwall. The 34-year-old, who previously pleaded guilty to copyright and fraud offenses, was handed a one-year prison sentence, suspended for two years, a 20-day rehabilitation activity requirement, and was made the subject of a £10 confiscation order. lol

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Man Who Sold £400K of Pirate IPTV Subscriptions Handed Suspended Sentence - TorrentFreak
 
I am sceptical of these kind of reports tbh. They rarely tell the whole story, 400k is probably the 'retail' price if people had paid full subs to provider.

It's very unlikely he made that much in profit and got away that low. Last time I heard of a similar case was MIKEDATA, He was let off with a £1 token payment and suspended sentence. Main reason is he as bankrupt so they had no chance of recovering money from him,

More likely he was offered a deal to go guilty and let them try and paint a bad picture to discourage others in return for going light on him in reality.
 
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Things dont add up with news report.
Servers cost him £6000/£8000 a month?
Considering the cost per month ranges from £80 to £250 for remote server it must of been some operation to say the least!!

Anyway fair play to him getting away with it so lightly. Not exactly a crime of century.
 
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£8000 a month was mentioned for a month for servers!!!!
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Actually the issue here is the bandwidth... with thousands of customers all watching different content (remember lots of IPTV also offer a sort of movie on demand type collection). It's not like CS where you just stream a few bytes of control word(CCam/newcamd etc.) instead you have to stream the full HD content. Servers for those kinds of figures won't go into the £25 budget.

Also most hosting companies won't turn a blind eye to illegal content for such petty amounts of income. They would need to pay some hosting company enough for the hosting company to want to keep the IPTV servers.

Add to that the original streams subs, and other costs....

all of that's assuming he was providing the servers that streamed the content to the end customers himself - which is what is been implied in the article. A high end operation to provide this kind of setup could easily cost the figures mentioned. But that does not fit with the sentence, so I suspect there is a lot more to this than is been reported.
 
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