Maxi operation of the postal police of Catania, with the coordination of the Postal and Communications Police Service of Rome, against illegal streaming and in contrast to cybercrime which has blocked 1,500,000 users with illegal subscriptions.
Eliminated 80% of the illegal flow of IP TV in Italy.
45 people are being investigated by the Public Prosecutor of Catania for criminal association, unauthorized access to the computer system, computer fraud and reproduction and dissemination of intellectual property via the internet.
An illegal turnover of millions of euros to the detriment of Sky, Dazn, Mediaset, Netflix and others.
The 'subscribers' paid a fee of 10 euros each per month, creating a fraudulent monthly turnover of 15 million. The measures were carried out in various Italian cities and more than 200 specialists from 11 regional compartments of the Postal Police were employed in the operation (Catania, Palermo, Reggio Calabria, Bari, Naples, Ancona, Rome, Cagliari, Milan, Florence, Venice) which, operating in the territory of 18 provinces, dismantled the criminal infrastructure, both from an organizational and technological point of view. An important "center" has been identified in Messina: its deactivation and seizure revealed that it managed about 80% of the illegal IPTV flow in Italy.
The illicit technique, reconstructed the Public Prosecutor of Catania, was' pyramidal 'and saw the collaboration between them of people who did not know each other The copyrighted contents were purchased lawfully, as a digital signal, by the top management of the organization (the' Sources) and, subsequently, through the preparation of a complex technical and organizational infrastructure, they are transformed into computer data and conveyed into audio / video streams, transmitted to a capillary network of resellers and end users, equipped with internet and equipment suitable for reception (the well-known "Pezzotto").