Jazztel proposed an initiative a few days ago aimed at offering free channels and thus improving its television offering so that many people think about it before moving on to watching pirated content on IPTV. And this type of streaming is currently on the rise, although it will now be more difficult to watch first and second division matches without paying a euro afterwards The Civil Guard deactivated the most important streaming channel in Europe.
He was known as the “Blue Crystal”and offered completely free paid football matches to around 78,000 users and with a loss of more than 42 million dollars. The investigation was carried out following the joint complaint presented by LaLiga and Movistar, which became the investigation into the alleged car: a 37-year-old man in the operation called “Corsario Bleu”.
In this survey, the messaging application appears Telegram as the channel chosen to broadcast the matches of the first and second Spanish divisions completely free; Very recently, the messaging application had to start collaborating with the authorities after the events faced by its CEO, Pavel Durov, who was arrested for a few days in France.
All this has to do with KODI, a widely used player that is responsible for organizing and playing videos, images and audio from the user’s own audiovisual library or from streaming on the Internet. Civil Guard investigators detected that one of the extensions created by a third-party developer allowed you to play Totally free football games.
It all led to tracking the source code of the “add-on” and a series of information searches that determined that the football matches were broadcast from Telegram. An investigation was carried out into the source code of the KODI extension in which a series of pseudonyms appeared.
After downloading the extension it was concluded that belonged to a specific user to access their full identification of the author when comparing the data with police databases. The operation resulted in the investigation of a 37-year-old man for crimes linked to the market and consumers with fraud of more than 42 million dollars, the deletion of the Telegram channels on which the matches were played and the code used. for the extension used by KODI.