Law enforcement authorities across Europe, supported by Europol and Eurojust, have taken down one of the largest illegal streaming networks operating within and outside the EU. The investigation targeted 102 suspects, 11 of whom were arrested, for distributing material from streaming services online illegally, including movies and series. They also pirated more than 2,500 television […]

The UK government is to scrutinise the future of linear TV broadcasting, as new research shows that some viewers could be excluded from the general shift towards online viewership. Senior representatives from Ofcom, TV broadcasters, infrastructure operators and organisations representing audiences will form a new working group, convened by Media Minister Stephanie Peacock MP. It […]

IPTV/OTT platform provider Green Streams and Swisscom have entered into a strategic partnership for the Swiss market. Green Streams has integrated Swisscom’s TV and video backend and content delivery network (CDN) with the Green Streams ‘Media Integration Platform’ and the Green Streams white-label frontend applications. This creates a flexible TV and entertainment service for network […]

Anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) says it applauds the criminal court in Stuttgart, Germany for sentencing the four operators of a pirate IPTV service for copyright infringement and commercial gang fraud. ACE also commends the Esslingen police for its investigation. ACE had filed a claim to support the ongoing criminal prosecution […]

The Argentine Judiciary has issued what is thought to be an unprecedented ruling in Latin America sentencing the blocking of all domains related to the illegal Internet television service Magis TV and ordered Google to prevent the application from being used in its Android operating system. The judicial decision was made within the framework of […]

DirecTV Inflight, a distributor of content in the commercial aviation industry, has launched an IPTV service for business aviation in collaboration with Satcom Direct (SD), the business aviation solutions provider. This media streaming technology offers business aviation customers access to live TV programming, including a comprehensive sports lineup. The solution is completely hardware-free, allowing passengers […]

Anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has reached settlements with three US-based illegal IPTV operators. As part of the settlements, the operators are required to pay over $2 million (€1.8m) in financial compensation to ACE. Working with its studio members, last year ACE identified the operators of the services that were illegally […]

Anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has applauded the Spanish National Police for their decisive action against the large-scale illegal IPTV service TVMucho (also known as Teeveeing), the first criminal action in Spain against an operation of this size and scope. The targeted operation was triggered by a criminal referral from ACE […]

Piracy has been a challenge for the Nordic media market for many years. Despite efforts to limit piracy, illegal consumption of films, series and live sports is growing in most Nordic markets, according to data from Mediavision. Currently, 25 per cent of all 15-74-year-olds in the Nordics say they have downloaded or illegally streamed content […]

UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has provided the Government with a report on the future of TV distribution. This is in response to a request from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in 2022 for Ofcom to carry out an early review of market changes that may affect the way content reaches audiences on Digital […]