If pirate sites They are not trying to get people to talk about them; on the contrary, the institutions tasked with shutting them down are eager to announce the success of their operations to the world. There are numerous accounts that one of the world’s most well-known IPTV services finally collapsed as a result of the coordinated efforts of rights holders and authorities. Typically, the publication remains factual, with a few sentences devoted to congratulations from the parties involved. However Some people are not afraid to create a sensation.
Among different countries of Europe, it is traditional for Italy to do this. It must be said that they are being very aggressive, especially regarding the termination of IPTV platforms. Remember: police went so far as to reroute all of the area’s Internet traffic to detect hackers. There was the same excitement when he launched his famous anti-piracy shield, which was supposed to eliminate piracy but its launch failed. In this context, we better understand the latest statement of Guardia di Finanza (GdF), which specializes in this fight.
Italian police say they have stopped more than a million pirates from illegally watching Euro 2024
GdF thus achieved:A major investigation to combat the phenomenon of audiovisual piracy called “IPTV”“. It continues: “As part of the 2024 European Football Championship, Fiamme Gialle carried out 14 local and computerized searches on national territory against 13 suspects residing in different regions of Italy and abroad.“. We don’t know what a “computer search” is, especially Police won’t talk about seized items among suspects, evenarrest your letter.
However, he states: “Therefore, signal transmission was jammed and more than 1.3 million users were prevented from accessing the content“. As such, it is an impressive figure that cannot be verified and can be reasonably doubted. Based on the latest figuresAudiovisual Anti-Piracy AllianceAchieved in 2021, approx. 1.14 million Proportion of Italians use illegal IPTV services. Even if we imagine their numbers doubling in 3 years, With this operation, GdF would affect more than half of the pirates in the country. Therefore, it is possible that the authorities embellished the situation a bit.
Source : TorrentFreak
