They have been agents of the National Police those who have dismantled this band that offered the signal of paid content to 500 people, even though that him messaging app channel was made up of at least 3,000 users. A person in Vitoria (Álava) has been arrested, and it is estimated that he would have obtained a profit of 40,000 euros with the activity.
The reseller managed everything through a panel
In the raid, the agents located a tablet, a mobile phone, different bank accounts, and a IPTV panel that it used to manage the service and offer the content links to the users who hired it.
The investigation started early 2020 after receiving a complaint of a company whose contents were being pirated in which the information was National Police that was being marketed Pirate IPTV through a domain. In that domain, various channels were advertised on different social networks through which the transactions and illegal marketing of the content were carried out. One of them, supposedly on Telegram, had 3,000 users, and in it the service was advertised and technical problems and user doubts were solved.
The channel clearly spoke of the channels offered by the service, as well as the price paid by users depending on the duration of the contracted package and the number of devices on which it was going to reproduce the content, demonstrating one of the risks of hiring pirated IPTV: being left without a service for which you have paid, and without any guarantee. To make it difficult to locate the channel, its creator had changed the name to make it difficult to link it to the illicit activity.
Reseller and suppliers, hand in hand in this service
In an IPTV service there are usually two types of members. The first is the content provider who is the person who obtains the original signal and takes care of broadcast it through servers to access via IPTV. The second is a reseller, or reseller, who are the ones who buy access to that signal, and later it is resell to end users at a price higher than the one they have paid to the supplier, making a profit from it. In this case, the operator was a reseller.
After locating him, the agents analyzed the hardware and software he used to manage the service, and were also able to locate the person who was acting as the content provider. The service had 500 active users at the time of the raid. Based on the average price paid, it is calculated that the service operator would have obtained 40,000 euros in profit. The company that reported the website estimates that the annual losses for this service they can reach figures of 1.5 million euros, always assuming that those who pirated the content had paid for it.