{"id":166694,"date":"2016-05-30T11:50:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T09:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=166694"},"modified":"2016-05-30T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T09:52:02","slug":"huge-crackdown-on-android-based-pirate-tv-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/166694-huge-crackdown-on-android-based-pirate-tv-boxes.html","title":{"rendered":"Huge crackdown on Android-based &#8220;pirate&#8221; TV boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in\u00a0Scotland have started a\u00a0massive crackdown on &#8220;pirate&#8221; Internet TV boxes, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/police-conducting-worlds-largest-pirate-box-crackdown-160528\/\" target=\"_blank\">TorrentFreak reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and police are targeting sellers of Android-based set-top boxes. TorretFreak said three torrent sites have also been closed down.<\/p>\n<p>The focus in Scotland is on the devices being used to stream live sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We estimated about 500 pubs might be involved, but today&#8217;s investigation has suggested it could be thousands,&#8221; a police spokesperson <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stv.tv\/news\/west-central\/1355490-police-crack-down-on-pubs-showing-pirate-tv-streams\/\" target=\"_blank\">told STV<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is undoubtedly the biggest operation of its kind in the world in terms of recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">AVSupply vs SAFACT and MultiChoice in South Africa<\/h3>\n<p>Locally, the Southern African Federation Against Copyright Theft (SAFACT) and MultiChoice <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/161750-multichoice-and-safact-nail-pirate-tv-box-seller-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>brought charges against\u00a0online retailer AVSupply<\/strong><\/a> over an Android-based media box it sold.<\/p>\n<p>AVSupply pleaded guilty to offences not related to the Copyright Act, but to circumventing protection mechanisms.\u00a0The retailer said\u00a0it <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/162800-the-truth-behind-pirate-tv-box-seller-that-multichoice-and-safact-nailed.html\"><strong>did not want to plead guilty<\/strong><\/a>, but felt it had no choice.<\/p>\n<p>MultiChoice said\u00a0it continually scans the environment and investigates any instances where its content is used illegally.<\/p>\n<p>SAFACT said it is currently investigating several other matters, which may include online retailers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the AVSupply case<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/164204-pirate-tv-boxes-in-south-africa-why-safact-nailed-the-little-guy.html\"><strong>Pirate TV boxes in South Africa: why SAFACT nailed the little guy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/162906-how-multichoice-trapped-south-africas-first-convicted-pirate-tv-box-seller.html\"><strong>How MultiChoice trapped South Africa\u2019s first convicted pirate TV box seller<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/162800-the-truth-behind-pirate-tv-box-seller-that-multichoice-and-safact-nailed.html\"><strong>The truth behind pirate TV box seller that MultiChoice and SAFACT nailed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish police have come down on sellers of Android-based media boxes that enable the illegal live streaming of sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":161754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,397,18178,18152,3534],"class_list":["post-166694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-android","tag-internet-tv","tag-set-top-box-stb","tag-torrentfreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166732,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166694\/revisions\/166732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}