Italian police have dismantled a pirate network that was earning R$1.5 billion a month

An illegal audiovisual content transmission network that earned 250 million euros (around 1.5 billion reais at current prices) a month has been dismantled as part of the largest operation against audiovisual piracy ever carried out in Italy and around the world.

More than 270 operators Postal Policewith the collaboration of foreign police forces, it carried out 89 searches in 15 Italian regions, as well as 14 searches in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Romania, Croatia and China, involving 102 people.

The pirated IPTV service has served 22 million users worldwide. On-demand content and live programs have been illegally captured by networks such as Sky, DAZN and MediaSet and redistributed via Prime Video, Disney+, Paramount+ and Netflix, at prices lower than those charged on the market. The overall loss was 10 billion euros (R$61.4 billion) per year.

The investigations lasted two years

Investigators classified the system as a “sophisticated computer system,” with “well-defined operational structures, a computer network distributed across multiple countries, and a large organization aimed at reselling signals at multiple points.”

The offices were located in Romania and Hong Kong after two years of investigations. Nine servers were traced that sent pirated audiovisual signals spread across Europe.

Furthermore, three senior administrators of the criminal organization and 80 control panels of the streaming flow of the various channels available to suspects throughout the country were located in England and the Netherlands.

The Postal Police team also detected the presence on various social platforms of channels, groups, accounts, forums, blogs and profiles that advertised the sale of streams, panels and monthly subscriptions for the illegal viewing of audiovisual content.

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