To fight against illegal IPTV, which is experiencing increasing success all over the world, rights holders are reprimanding the managers of these pirate networks. They also no longer hesitate to threaten or impose fines on Internet users, as has already been seen among our European neighbors. But Spanish users received an unexpected letter from La Liga, Explanations.
A fine, but not only that…
Spanish football leaders have been adopting this strategy of sending letters including fines to suspects for several months now. TorrentFreakalways very well informed on this subject, mentions a letter which proposes a payment of 261.65 euros.
This missive therefore attacks an individual who “watched a pirated IPTV stream”while the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia had promised that ordinary viewers would not be targeted, our colleagues report. How is this possible?
La Liga believes that the recipient used software called Ace Stream to watch football matches. Clearly, rather than broadcasting content directly from an illegal IPTV server, this device uses peer-to-peer transfers such as BitTorrent to share content with other users.
Internet users would therefore be part of a distribution network at the very moment they watch the meeting. La Liga thus believes that they are not simple spectators of pirated streams, but suppliers of pirated content.
How to react?
Faced with such mail, Internet users have reason to panic. Is it better to pay the requested amount or think twice? Quoted by our colleagues, Javier Prenafeta, lawyer at 451.legal, comments:
In these cases, La Liga obtained the data of the users behind the IP addresses under the pretext that they are not simple bona fide non-profit consumers, because when they access the content they also share it, which implies an advantage.
He recommends that Internet users think about the implications of their signature on the La Liga declaration because it comes back “to recognize that they provide access to illegal content, which could fall under the criminal code. The best thing to do is to consult a lawyer. ».
In any case, and beyond the Spanish case, we can see that the authorities and rights holders are increasingly mobilized and tense about the repression of these pirate IPTVs which have become extremely popular.
