Tag Archives: Piracy

Telefonica Peru requests Osiptel to reconsider its resolution and reports that the regulator distorts competition in the country’s pay TV market

July 13, 2021
Movistar Peru (Peru) Total direct pay TV subscribers

Telecommunications company Telefonica Peru, where, as in the rest of the Latin American countries where it operates, it does so under the ‘Movistar‘ brand, has officially announced this last Monday, July 12th, that it has requested the Peruvian Organismo Supervisor de Inversion Privada en Telecomunicaciones (Osiptel), entity in charge of regulating the public telecommunications services [...]

National Copyright Directorate grants first precautionary measure against online piracy in Colombia

March 15, 2021
IPTV subscribers Colombia

The Alliance against Pay TV Piracy (better known as ‘Alianza’), a group of content providers, pay TV operators and technology providers that fight against piracy in Latin America, reported days ago that Colombian National Copyright Directorate ( Direccion Nacional de Derecho de Autor – DNDA) granted for the first time blocking precautionary measures against ‘IPTV [...]

Alianza highlights Brazil for its fight against content piracy

November 25, 2020
IPTV revenues Brazil

The Alianza Contra Pirateria de Television Paga (‘Alianza’) has recently announced the successful results of the second phase of ‘Operation 404’, the largest scale enforcement operation against content piracy that has ever been developed in Latin America. A total of 25 judicial search and seizure warrants across ten Brazilian states were served, and 252 websites [...]

Dataxis debates on new sports piracy threats in Latin America

September 18, 2020
Fanatiz Argentina SVOD and streaming service revenues

Dataxis held a new virtual panel yesterday, focused on the online piracy impact on live sports in Latin America. With this focus, the company brought together Matias Rivera, CEO at Fanatiz; Gustavo Lerner, Regional Channel Manager for Latam at Verimatrix; and Pedro Freire, Head of Programming for TyC Sports, who participated in the panel ‘New [...]

Uruguay records new illegal IPTV distribution case

June 16, 2020
Average number of TV set per household Uruguay

Two people were condemned in Florida, Uruguay  for illegal distribution of audiovisual content via IPTV. As officially reported by the Uruguayan newspaper ‘El Pais’ on its web version, the sentence is ‘six months of probation, under certain conditions, for crimes linked to TV networks  interception without the authorization of their owners’. The sentence is for [...]

Anatel and Ancine work together against audiovisual piracy in Brazil

June 8, 2020
Claro Brazil Fixed wireless Internet subscribers

Brazilian National Film Agency (Ancine), together with the country’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), established a team to evaluate the possible joint regulation of the administrative blocking of websites that distribute audiovisual content without the previous authorization of their owners. The initiative is based on providing more agility and effectiveness in the fight against piracy, since [...]

Responsible for the Mega Imagen pay TV operator in Argentina is sent to prison for illegal DirecTV contents broadcasting

TV channels / Content | | April 9, 2020

As a result of a complaint filed by DirecTV for broadcasting illegal content  against the pay TV operator Mega Imagen, the Curuzu Cuatia Prosecutor’s Office (Corrientes, Argentina) ordered the prosecution and preventive detention for Joaquín Urdapilleta, owner of the company. According to what DirecTV reported in an official statement, Mega Imagen was illegally providing cable [...]

Javier Perea: ‘Content democratization led to a piracy increasement’

Events | | November 14, 2019

Javier Perea, CEO at Smart Protection, was one of the speakers who participated in Nextv CEO Latin America, leading conference organized by Dataxis, which was held last week at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Miami. In a one-on-one session entitled ‘As digital piracy continues to evolve, is technology the best way to fight back’?, [...]

Cotel to offer a free cable TV subscription for those who report piracy connections

Pay TV | | October 21, 2019

The La Paz Telecommunications Cooperative (Cotel) announced it will offer its cable TV package for free for one year for those who report clandestine connections, which, according to the Bolivian newspaper La Razon, they reach 250 thousand at present, and affect the company’s economic incomes. ‘We offer a free annual subscription for those who report [...]

Sportv Series Latin America & US Hispanic strengthens itself as the annual event of sports business on TV and OTT

Events | | September 25, 2019

Sportv Series Latin America & US Hispanic, in its first edition at the Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, is taking place in response to the growing interest in the TV technology convergence and the sports business development in the region. The conference and expo will be held next October 2nd and will focus on how new [...]