Justice refuses to ban the sale of pirated IPTV in supermarkets

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Accessing pirated IPTV is really simple, since it is also not required to have a special device for it. Having a player is comfortable, but it is not essential, being able to use a computer, a mobile, a Raspberry Pi, or even apps that come pre-installed on a television. However, they have tried to ban the sale of devices that allow pirated IPTV to be seen in supermarkets, and justice has prevented it.

In September 2019, Allarco Entertainment (owners of Super Channel ), sued in each a multitude of supermarket chains and large stores such as Staples, Best Buy, London Drugs, Canada Computers and a multitude of smaller stores and 50,000 anonymous citizens.

Allarco accused them of promoting and instructing users in the use of IPTV devices with which hackers could access content without paying for it . The lawsuit contained more than 100 hours of hidden recordings in which they claim sellers were instructing buyers on how to install IPTV software like Kodi and the like.

They accuse supermarkets of fomenting piracy

Allarco filed the lawsuit, but after the stores struggled, they dropped it in January 2020. However, in December 2019 they had registered another similar lawsuit in another court with the same evidence, and the failure in this case has been even greater because the court has torn them apart.

For starters, lawsuits are usually brought by the rights owners, and Allarco only licenses content, but does not own it. Therefore, they added two series, but did not add or notify the owners. As a result, Allarco could not sue for copyright infringement in the litigation until rights owners come forward. However, it allowed them to defend their position.

Allarco claimed that they had lost subscribers due to pirated devices sold in stores , but the judge found no evidence that this was the case in the evidence they provided. They could not even demonstrate with an example that someone canceled their subscription to Super Channel or considered it because they had bought a pirated player from a store. They didn't even show that people who bought it had used it to hack.

The judge again granted them the benefit of the doubt and assumed that at least some of the devices could have been used to hack, so he wanted to see if the stores had really contributed to the infringement of rights . To do this, he analyzed the evidence collected by a single person in the stores, where he had been visiting several of them for more than a year posing as a consumer who wanted to hack, and who was secretly recording the interactions.

But the judge puts them in their place

The problem is that, in that case, the fake buyer was posing as someone who was already predisposed to pirate, so it would not have been a direct loss for the company. In addition, he misled sellers by saying that friends of his had bought a device that allowed hacking in his stores.

Some sellers said that doing this was illegal, others did not know what he was talking about, and others did comment that, indeed, they could be used to hack. Almost everyone said the company couldn't offer help with modifying the devices, and the few that did had no legal knowledge, and were simply doing their job: helping a pushy buyer. Thus, there is no evidence that a seller tried to sell a device for those purposes without the buyer asking.

Therefore, the judge has determined that there is no evidence that subscribers have been lost due to what happened in the recordings. In addition, the judge explained that Kodi can be used for legal purposes , in addition to coming with pre-installed legal apps such as Netflix, YouTube or Google Play.

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