IPTV: This expert reveals an inconvenient truth about the fight against piracy

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Faced with the rise of IPTV and livestreaming sites that broadcast live sporting events illegally, repression is becoming increasingly strong. For several years now, strategies to simply block the incriminated servers have been in place. At the risk of blocking perfectly legitimate services ? This is the risk highlighted by an expert in the sector.

Increasingly significant blockages

In 2017, dynamic injunctions were introduced in the United Kingdom to address pirate broadcasts of the Premier League. In concrete terms, Internet service providers are therefore forced to block certain servers that allow matches to be broadcast illegally.

Other countries have since followed this path, including Italy, which passed a law on the subject in 2023. Our neighbors have set up the Piracy Shield or Anti-piracy Shield which deploys an infrastructure specially dedicated to these blocks.

Be careful not to go too far

In an interview relayed by the site TorrentFreak, Chris White, executive at Friend MTS, a company that offers anti-piracy solutions, returned to these issues. In this regard, he recalls:

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This summer, the broadcasting industry held its breath when news broke about the excessive blocking of the new Italian anti-piracy platform Piracy Shield, managed by AGCOM, the country’s communications regulator. No one wants to be responsible for blocking legitimate online services, damaging brands and impacting revenues.

He is referring here to the blocking of Cloudfare’s service and its customers’ websites due to a Cloudfare IP address being mistakenly placed in Piracy Shield.

He therefore advocates a more thoughtful approach to the problem and a more cautious use of these automated solutions:

As the industry digests this risk, we expect to see more restraint and scrutiny of automated solutions and a move towards blocking services with proven accuracy and industry-proven monitoring technology.

He adds that this will involve “ best-in-class monitoring and precision technologies to ensure that no target will cause collateral damage to legitimate services. »

The message has gotten through and it is all the more remarkable that someone at the heart of the fight against piracy is so aware of it. In any case, these methods have so far proven ineffective in countering Internet users' appetite for IPTV, which has never been so popular.

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