A major blow against illegal subscription services was achieved by the Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Agency (FIOD) with the help of Europol, as they shut down an illegal IPTV service with over 1.000.000 subscribers across Europe.
As announced by Europol on May 23, a series of raids took place across the Netherlands, with the bulk of the servers occupying an entire datacenter. Several people were arrested on suspicion of being involved in illegal streaming of premium content.
The packages that subscribers bought gave access on more than 10.000 TV channels, but also in a bookcase 15.000 movies and TV shows.
Few details have been released about the main suspects, but authorities say four people have been arrested. Available information indicates that the GLOBE Datacenter was a key target.
FIOD reports that 1.200 servers were intentionally taken down connections in a data center, which was allegedly operated by one of the main suspects.
While raids on IPTV networks are not uncommon, we rarely see an entire commercial data center go offline.
Looking at the websites hosted by GLOBE (AS212708), we actually see many domains and IP addresses related to IPTV services, such as: nextiptv.org, iptvextrema.com, mercuryiptv.com and many more.
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