A historic verdict linked to Brazil’s anti-piracy marketing campaign ‘Operation 404’ has resulted within the conviction and sentencing of the operator of Flash IPTV.
As a big IPTV service with over 13,000 energetic customers, Flash IPTV generated almost $1 million in income earlier than being shut down in 2020 as a part of Operation 404. This prison copyright infringement conviction marks the primary prosecution of an IPTV operator in Brazil underneath Operation 404.
‘Operation 404’ was a sequence of anti-piracy campaigns initiated in Brazil in 2019, with the cooperation of worldwide legislation enforcement companies together with the US & the UK. The aim was to take down pirate websites and companies concerned in unlawful streaming actions.
Whereas arrests have been made underneath Operation 404, convictions and prosecutions have been uncommon. We have now seen jail sentences up to now for these working illicit IPTV Providers together with the favored YouTube Star Omi in a Hellcat however situations like this don’t happen usually. The well-known YouTuber was discovered responsible of tax fraud amongst different expenses after evading the IRS for over $5 million.
The proprietor of Flash IPTV, nevertheless, was discovered responsible solely of prison copyright infringement for broadcasting content material with out correct authorization.
This resulted in Decide Marina Figueiredo Coelho of the Fifth Prison Court docket of Campinas, Sao Paolo, sentencing the Flash IPTV operator (known as A.W.A.P) to five years and 4 months in jail.
Aiding within the conviction was the anti-piracy group ALIANZA who famous that this can be a historic verdict as it’s the first time Operation 404 has resulted in a conviction.
In a remark to TorrentFreak, ALIANZA Government Director Victor Roldan acknowledged:
We respect the dedication of the police and judicial authorities in resolving this essential case. The conviction of A.W.A.P. is a milestone that reinforces our dedication to defending the rights of creators and combating towards unlawful practices that hurt the artistic economic system..
It seems that Brazilian authorities aren’t completed with a majority of these prosecutions. Within the fall of 2023, authorities continued their push of Operation 404 with the “sixth wave” of this plan and can seemingly proceed with extra of those sooner or later.
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