Ex-police officer jailed for selling illegal streaming devices
A former police officer has been jailed for selling illegal devices that bypassed paid-for TV content and cost legitimate service providers more than £2 million ($2.5 million).
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4 March 2020 Anti-piracy and copyright protection body the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment has helped shut down Aus Media Streaming, a “piracy outfit that was selling internet protocol television set-top boxes and subscriptions”.
10 February 2020 US television provider Dish Network has won $9.9 million in damages from the operators of the pirate internet TV service Easybox IPTV.
12 November 2020 Europol and national law enforcement agencies have shut down a Swiss piracy operation which earned €1.9 million from illegal streaming boxes.