Illegal streaming, Finance blitz: kidnappings also on Telegram

Blitz by the Guardia di Finanza against audiovisual piracy, the so-called “IPTV” – Internet Protocol Television, carried out through the unauthorized transmission of protected content on the Internet. The Special Unit for the Protection of Privacy and Technological Frauds of the Gdf in anticipation of the last day of the Serie A football championship and the final of the Conference League has registered hundreds of new services and resources dedicated to the sale of illegal streaming. Numerous Telegram channels – including some with over 20,000 subscribers – advertised the advantages and convenience by offering in a single subscription called ‘Official Application’, at a ridiculously low price, any TV channel and PAY TV visible simultaneously from any device (Telephone, tablet, television, computer, etc) ensuring the possibility of a free trial lasting one hour, ensuring the guarantee of anonymity for the benefit of users. At the same time as the seizure, by delegation of the Naples judicial authority, of the over 500 Web resources and the related 40 Telegram channels, which took place simultaneously with the first race of the weekend and again proposed for the final of the European competition, a a real tracing system that made it possible to identify the users of the pirate flows. Anyone who tried to connect to the pirate services was immediately redirected to an information panel that warned that the site through which the program was being viewed was seized and the connection data traced. a new IT flow management system, called “Stream Creed”, which appears to derive from the source code of the already known “Xtream Code”, a worldwide pirate platform dismantled in 2019.