IPTV services are not illegal per se, but the use made of them is. IPTV stands for Internet Protocol Television and it is a technology used to distribute video signals through broadband connections over the IP protocol. But it will surely sound familiar to you because it has become one of the most frequent forms of piracy and these are the most famous free IPTV pirates in the world, the most used and well-known.
There are paid IPTV services that allow us to access certain content in exchange for an amount. But others are completely free and are the option for many users to view pirated content. Pursued by competitions, sports leagues and institutions, IPTVs have become a widely used and popular option in all countries of the world. Especially to watch sports competitions for free and without paying for a platform.
Most used free IPTV
Now, the Torrentfreak site has collected the most famous free pirate IPTV in the world, the most used in all countries to pirate football.
soccerstreams
From Egypt, this pirate IPTV has hundreds of thousands of subscribers and offers all kinds of sports such as NFL, NBA, NHL, F1… but also football and even European competitions. According to Torrenfreak, Soccerstreams managed to reach more than 25 million visits per month and in October 2020 it became the most successful pirate website in the United Kingdom. Although it has now lost part of its fame, it is still one of the most used pirate IPTVs and, therefore, the most persecuted.
Lalastream / istream2watch.com
To watch all kinds of sports and the Premier League, this is one of the most used pirate IPTVs and claims to have had almost 60 million visits so far in 2022. It allows access to all kinds of links to watch football but also other sports and competitions such as tennis, boxing, NBA, NFL, NHL, motor…
On its own website, it boasts of offering “a series of channels where you will access sports from around the world and watch televised matches…” According to the aforementioned media, the Premier League detected that there were more than 1,000 live broadcasts during the 2021 season /22 using this IPTV.
Livekoora.online
Another of the most used is Livekoora, a pirate IPTV website in Arabic that offers links and transmissions of all kinds of sports and competitions, including the Premier League but also other major leagues from around the world such as LaLiga Santander or the Bundesliga.
livetv.sx
It operates on multiple domains and is a site that offers all kinds of links or domains to watch football. According to the Premier League, this pirate IPTV received more than 125 million visits in 2022 alone, although there are already legal procedures for it to end its activity as soon as possible.
Should we use these sites?
Using a pirate IPTV has many risks. It is not only a problem when the quality of the broadcasts will not be the best, but it can lead to much more serious problems or risks… The police can access your data when these pirate IPTVs close and are intervened by the authorities. But you can also suffer identity theft when our data, used to access these websites or services, falls into dangerous hands or into the hands of cybercriminals…
More and more countries are reinforcing their fight against this type of page to avoid the illegal broadcast of content that we can see by contracting packages with the different operators.