Sentenced to pay 90 million for pirated IPTV and only thinks of launching others

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Rare is the day that a pirate IPTV service does not get into serious trouble. The operators at the helm of SetTV have already faced paying $90 million in damages to broadcaster DISH Networks. As if that were not enough, they have not stopped wanting to continue launching more pirate IPTV services.

The operations to stop the feet of those who are in charge of a pirate IPTV take place every week. Raids, arrests and sanctions are common and making use of this type of service also puts you at risk of your bank details being stolen or your personal details ending up in the hands of the authorities, forcing you to face legal problems. Now, problems are mounting for former SetTV pirate IPTV operators, as they have once again been accused of launching more pirate services in violation of the court order imposed for damages on DISH Networks.

They launch new services despite the sanction

It was in 2018 when the DISH Networks station sued Nelson Johnson and Jason LaBossiere, both at the helm of SetTV, who faced a sentence of 90 million dollars for violations of the Federal Communications Act. The court also entered a permanent injunction preventing the defendants and their cohorts from launching a similar service in violation of DISH’s rights.

However, this move did not stop former SetTV owners Jason LaBossiere, Sean Beaman and Stefan Gollner from launching new pirate IPTV services. The station fears that they are now behind ExpediteTV, Mundo TV and Must TV, completely flouting the court ruling. A compelling reason to reopen the case and impose penalties of $1,000 per day.

DISH files a new lawsuit

This week DISH, Sling TV and NagraStar have filed a new piracy lawsuit in Florida court accusing Jason LaBossiere, Sean Beaman, Stefan Gollner and Osivette Brito of doing business under the pirate IPTVs ExpediteTV, Mundo TV and Must TV. According to DISH, “the defendants changed the name of SetTV to ExpediteTV and sold their services through expeditetv.com.” On the other hand, “Mundo TV and Must TV are described as rebranded versions of ExpediteTV that were sold to subscribers through the mundo-tv.com and must-tv.com domains, in breach of the agreed settlement and court orders in the earlier request.” The new lawsuit alleges that this time there are also crimes of copyright infringement.

“DRM is believed to be circumvented by a differential flaw analysis attack in which flaws are injected into the DRM to disrupt its operation and create pathways to extract the keys needed to decrypt DISH programming and Sling programming, or a man in the middle-of-the-road attack whereby custom software is used to circumvent DRM by intercepting DISH Programming or Sling Programming passing from the DRM decryption library to the user’s viewing platform,” the complaint explains.

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Sale of “device codes”

Subscriptions to pirate IPTV services are known as “device codes”. In this case they were sold for $24 a month for all three services. The services reportedly require users to download Lenox Media Player and Ultra Media Player, viewing software reportedly developed by Brito.

The actors deposited the money raised from the subscriptions into a bank account established by Gollner, while the card payments were processed through a fictitious Florida business name linked to LaBossiere and Beaman.

DISH is seeking damages of more than $100,000 for each FCA violation, and DISH and NagraStar up to $100,000 in a second. DISH and Sling are also seeking up to $2,500 for each DMCA violation. The exact level of the penalty is yet to be determined, but it will be a very high figure considering the gross contempt of court in the first $90 million judgment.

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