Premier League helps shut down illegal IPTV streaming business: report

NATIONAL POLICE IN Spain, Denmark and Europol have cracked an illegal international IPTV streaming business spanning 30 countries.According to a report in Broadband TV News, raids in 14 locations resulted in the arrests of five individuals for crimes of belonging to a criminal organisation, intellectual property theft, fraud and money laundering.Initiated by the Premier League in 2015, the investigation uncovered a complex international technological infrastructure underpinning the illegal IPTV business, including 11 server farms distributed all over the world, some of them with more than 44 servers. The illegal service allowed access to more than 800 television channels to subscribers...