List of pirate pages that want to close this year is disclosed

2023 will go down in history as the year when pirated IP TV went from being relatively unknown to being enemy number one of the police and large companies holding rights such as football or the latest films and series. Although IPTV is not new, it is only now that its true impact on the distribution of pirated content has become evident.

The security forces and judicial systems of European states have mobilized, with several arrests and prison sentences and fines against the creators of IPTV services; and of course, with the consequence server shutdown

. But this is only the beginning, and everything indicates that 2024 will be rich in similar new features.

In fact, the next offensive against pirates has already begun, led by the MPA (Motion Picture Association) and ACE (Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment). These American organizations have already managed to close several web pages offering access to high definition series, which now display a very clear message: “Do not put yourself in danger by using or subscribing to illegal streaming services. » This is a well-known tactic of spoofing the pirate website to display anti-piracy content; On other occasions, logos and shields of the police or court that authorized the closure of the page are displayed. However, this last detail should not lead us to believe that these actions are carried out only against American pages; In fact, closed pages have been operating mainly in Thailand, and this will be just the beginning.

Closed pirate pages display warning message to users

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And the list of approximately 40 pirate services that will be the next target MPA and ACE; and there are all kinds of pages, from various countries. From direct download pages to torrent pages, including IPTV services, the list published by TorrentFreak

leaves no doubt: a real “apocalypse” is approaching for pirate pages. It’s also important to note that the size of each page’s community doesn’t seem to matter; In the list there are entries with millions of views, but also some with only a few thousand.

Concerning IPTV, we distinguish the presence of two important services which use this technology to broadcast content protected by copyright. A curious detail is that organizations ask deleting an IPTV list, which can be used in conjunction with a program like VLC to view content without connecting to a web page; These IPTV lists are very popular and are distributed as M3U format files.