{"id":6765,"date":"2023-10-12T17:07:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/des-proprietaires-de-pirate-iptv-condamnes-a-36-mois-de-prison-et-a-18-millions-de-dollars-de-dommages-et-interets-une-affaire-qui-secoue-lindustrie-du-streaming-illegal\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:07:45","slug":"des-proprietaires-de-pirate-iptv-condamnes-a-36-mois-de-prison-et-a-18-millions-de-dollars-de-dommages-et-interets-une-affaire-qui-secoue-lindustrie-du-streaming-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/pirate-iptv-owners-sentenced-to-36-months-in-prison-and-to-18-million-dollars-in-damages-an-affair-that-shocks-the-illegal-streaming-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"IPTV pirate owners sentenced to 36 months in prison and $18 million in damages - A case that shakes up the illegal streaming industry!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69f1da7a90ddf\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 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href=\"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/pirate-iptv-owners-sentenced-to-36-months-in-prison-and-to-18-million-dollars-in-damages-an-affair-that-shocks-the-illegal-streaming-industry\/#Les_informations_anonymes_a_lorigine_de_lenquete\" >Anonymous information at the origin of the survey<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/pirate-iptv-owners-sentenced-to-36-months-in-prison-and-to-18-million-dollars-in-damages-an-affair-that-shocks-the-illegal-streaming-industry\/#La_police_a_egalement_recu_des_informations\" >The police have also received information<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/pirate-iptv-owners-sentenced-to-36-months-in-prison-and-to-18-million-dollars-in-damages-an-affair-that-shocks-the-illegal-streaming-industry\/#Enquete_surveillance_ecoutes_telephoniques\" >Investigation, surveillance, wiretapping<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/pirate-iptv-owners-sentenced-to-36-months-in-prison-and-to-18-million-dollars-in-damages-an-affair-that-shocks-the-illegal-streaming-industry\/#Un_service_IPTV_operationnel_de_septembre_2017_a_octobre_2021\" >IPTV service from September 2017 to October 2021<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/pirate-iptv-owners-sentenced-to-36-months-in-prison-and-to-18-million-dollars-in-damages-an-affair-that-shocks-the-illegal-streaming-industry\/#Condamnation_au_tribunal_des_brevets_et_du_marche_de_la_Suede\" >Conviction by the Swedish Patent and Market Court<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Deux_hommes_condamnes_a_une_peine_de_prison_de_36_mois_pour_avoir_exploite_un_service_IPTV_pirate\"><\/span>Two men sentenced to 36 months in prison for operating a pirate IPTV service<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Two men who operated a pirate IPTV service have been sentenced to 36 months' imprisonment by a specialized intellectual property court in Sweden. Anonymous information led to an investigation, police surveillance including phone tapping, and subsequent searches which resulted in the seizure of 47 gold bars and sufficient evidence for two convictions. The men were also ordered to pay over $18 million in damages to the broadcasters.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Les_informations_anonymes_a_lorigine_de_lenquete\"><\/span>Anonymous information at the origin of the survey<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It's unclear why anyone would give anonymous information to anti-piracy group Nordic Content Protection (NCP) in 2019. But for NCP members, including pay-TV company C More (formerly Canal+), Warner Bros. Discovery and streaming service Viaplay, it signaled the start of an investigation and lawsuit that would not end for another four years.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"La_police_a_egalement_recu_des_informations\"><\/span>The police have also received information<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The person who made the tip reported an illegal IPTV network in the town of G\u00e4vle. Then, in 2020, the NCP reportedly received another tip, this time from the G\u00e4vle police, who in turn had received similar information about a similar operation.<\/p>\n<p>It's unclear whether the ASC took any action, but a year after being tipped off by the police, the anti-piracy group received another tip about the same service. According to GD.se (paywall), the person who gave this information had purchased an IPTV device from the service for around $260, but if the ASC was interested, he was willing to sell it to them.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Enquete_surveillance_ecoutes_telephoniques\"><\/span>Investigation, surveillance, wiretapping<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>An investigation into the service, which has still not been publicly named, included both online and offline work. GD notes that a period of police-led surveillance included phone tapping, before several searches were conducted in October 2021.<\/p>\n<p>At the homes of the two suspects, one in G\u00e4vle and the other in Sandviken, police found computers that linked to the IPTV device purchased by the anonymous tipster. The police were also able to prove that the Sandviken man had rented servers, while the G\u00e4vle man was in charge of the software on which the service ran.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Un_service_IPTV_operationnel_de_septembre_2017_a_octobre_2021\"><\/span>IPTV service from September 2017 to October 2021<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Evidence showed that the police raids in October 2021 put an end to an IPTV service that had been running for almost four years since September 2017. The provider would have served more than 12,000 customers and generated considerable revenue.<\/p>\n<p>During a search of the Sandviken man's home, police discovered 47 gold bars. A collection of whisky worth an estimated SEK 1,000,000 ($91,600) was discovered at the other suspect's home in G\u00e4vle. In all, police discovered SEK 270,000 ($24,700) in cash, as well as SEK 450,000 ($41,200) in Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Condamnation_au_tribunal_des_brevets_et_du_marche_de_la_Suede\"><\/span>Conviction by the Swedish Patent and Market Court<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The men were convicted last week at the Patent and Market Court, a court specializing in intellectual property cases at the Stockholm District Court. The court found that, with so many customers, the men had operated the service as a business, which was probably their main source of income.<\/p>\n<p>Along with a third defendant, who was later found not guilty, the alleged operators of the service denied committing any crimes. According to reports, the duo refused to talk during the investigation or trial; this did not bear fruit.<\/p>\n<p>The two men were found guilty of criminal copyright infringement and sentenced to 36 months in prison. Then came the awarding of damages.<\/p>\n<p>The former partners were held jointly and severally liable for damages totaling SEK 196,247,000 ($18 million), to be paid to C More, Warner Bros. Discovery and Viaplay, the latter being the most affected.<\/p>\n<p>To put things into perspective, the three men behind The Pirate Bay were ordered to pay a total of $6.5 million after an unsuccessful appeal of their 2009 convictions. The Pirate Bay trio were sentenced to a combined prison term of 22 months, a far cry from the 72 months handed down to the two IPTV operators last week.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actu-tech","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6766,"href":"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions\/6766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toukiela.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}