Attack on thousands of pirate TV users

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Malmö residents have been arrested since Monday and questioned but were released late in the afternoon. He is suspected of copyright infringement and file sharing.

- We had an attack yesterday at a place in Malmö at a retailer of IPTV. It's about what we think are thousands of users. But the investigation must show that, says Johanna Kolga.

Pirate TV means that users pay for a subscription with a company that illegally encodes TV channels and then broadcasts via the internet. In this way, a subscriber can illegally watch coded channels but also movies at a considerably lower price.

On the internet, there are ads from a large number of providers of pirate TV that offer Swedish viewers, including all Swedish TV channels and pay channels such as Netflix, Viasat and C more. A provider writes on its website that subscribers get access to 6,000 movies.

Subscribers risk prosecution

Similar raids have previously been made in Sweden, including Malmö. Since 2014, it is a criminal offense to use subscriptions to pirate television. Companies that illegally distribute copyrighted material in this way usually place their servers in countries where, among other things, they claim that customers' information is protected.

Pirate TV distributors make extensive use of resellers to gain new customers. Retailers can make money by getting the commission. Malmö residents are not suspected of having decoded channels.

- My client denies the crime. By the way, I have no comment, says lawyer Andreas Björkman who is the representative of the suspected Malmö resident

Edited May 21, 2021 by Chewy_fox

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