IPTVs are persecuted in Europe and Europe, especially those dedicated to broadcasting unlicensed football matches. After years in which other methods were favored by pirates, IPTV has grown in importance in a very short time; and this leads to arrests and convictions for offering pirated IPTV television.
Although, at the moment, the possibility of receiving fines for the use of IPTV remains unresolved, this does not mean that rights holders lack options. Countries like Italy and its new IPTV blocking system are the benchmark, but not the only possible method.
Today, the UK demonstrated another possible tactic to crack down on pirated IPTV: blocking easy access via Google search. The Internet giant agreed block thousands of web pages of your search results.
Google blocks IPTV
As revealed TorrentFreak, Google has already blocked more than 10,000 domains and subdomains, although this figure could be higher; This means that subscription pages and services do not appear when we do a Google search. Concretely, this means that these pages have “disappeared” from the Internet, since the Google search engine is the one used by default on almost all mobile phones and computers.
This is a surprising figure and achieved without much publicity; especially because Google has always refused to remove links
However, something seems to have changed in recent years at Google, as the company has now become one of the rights holders’ biggest allies. Google started blocking links to web pages, even if they don’t host pirated content; For example, pages that advertise unlicensed IPTV services to access sports content, as well as films and series on demand.
It should be noted that blocked pages have not been closed, and remain directly accessible if the user knows the address or carries out a search with an alternative search engine; It’s just that they don’t appear on Google when you search for them. This should already be a major blow to these piracy operations, since Google accounts for the largest percentage of visits of all web pages. It remains to be seen whether Google would be willing to take further steps to block these pages; such as, for example, blocking them in Europe and other countries, or preventing the Google Chrome browser from loading blocked pages.
