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ARTICLE · 30 SEPTEMBER 2019

Serie A Gets Tough On Piracy

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Italian football league Serie A is taking action against audiovisual piracy of sports content (i.e. the illegal activity of pirate operator websites ...

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Paolo Macchi
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Italian football league Serie A is taking action against audiovisual piracy of sports content (i.e. the illegal activity of pirate operator websites offering access, mainly through IPTVs, to audiovisual sports content obtained from a pay TV operator), having launched a campaign called “Piracy kills football” several months ago.

In mid-September 2019, the Special Unit for the Protection of Privacy and Technological Fraud of the Guardia di Finanza (the Italian law enforcement agency responsible for fighting financial crime, tax evasion and smuggling) gave a hard blow to the activities of illegal IPTVs. By way of an international operation involving eight European countries, the Guardia di Finanza seized and blocked the notorious “Xstream Codes” online platform, thus denying access to illegal sports-related content to over 700,000 online users. More than twenty people are being investigated.

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