The telecommunications company América Móvil revealed that in the last two years there was a great multiplication of piracy of pay TV content in Brazil, and argued that a factor that facilitated its spread was the growth of IPTVs and the decision of operators to broadcast their content over the Internet for public access. Oscar [...]
Paulo Cesar Texeira, Claro’s CEO, denounced a fast increasing spread of piracy of its STBs and demanded the Brazilian Association of Subscription Television (ABTA) to be more rigorous in its work to stop these types of crimes. “We expect the market to move towards a usage correction, so there is no harmful interference from pirated [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, 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’?, [...]