IPTV news keeps coming and just earlier this month Google had to step up to the plate to announce measures to counter this growing type of broadcasting. Now two brothers in the UK They were sentenced to prison in recent hours for audiovisual fraud.
Javier Tebas, president of La Liga, took to his X account (formerly Twitter) to state that Those who commit this type of fraud fall. And two brothers have been imprisoned for eleven years because of an illegal streaming network that they controlled and which was accessed by thousands of homes.
And even The terminology to describe this type of fraud is evolving due to the increase in reports. Last month, 40 illegal IPTV operators were reported, some of them receiving visits from police and anti-piracy group FACT.
What happened to the two brothers is that in March 2019, they directly experienced a raid carried out by the police and the anti-piracy organisation FACT in what has been described as a £3m fraud operation involving the mass downloading, encryption and distribution of TV content from Sky, Virgin and BT.
During the raid, the total value of equipment used for illegal distribution of content reached A figure of £100,000 between computers, servers and more, we can therefore confirm that these were not simple content redistributors. Their actions generated around £600,000 and a list of 3,000 subscribers to their services was found.
Abir Butt, 56, from Ilford, was sentenced to 7 years in prisonwhile his brother, Ammar Hussain, 39 and also from the same place, is just four years old. The interesting part comes from the couple’s fraudulent operation which has now been described as “delegitimise TV providers for over £1m.
LaLiga reminds us that audiovisual fraud is a scourge for the audiovisual industry and more particularly for competition clubs, according to Brandand La Liga suffers annual losses estimated at 600 million dollars.
And it’s not like it’s something totally new that people are being arrested for IPTV piracy activities, but lately it’s been talked about more than before. due to the exponential growth of this type of platforms who share all types of content across their networks according to TorrentFreak.