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Italy Busts €300 Million Streaming Piracy Ring
- On Friday, Italy's financial police busted the CINEMAGOAL streaming piracy network, which caused $348 million in damages to rights holders including Sky, DAZN, Netflix, Disney, and Spotify.
- Virtual machines operated around the clock on Italian soil, capturing and retransmitting access codes from legitimate subscriptions every three minutes to fuel the illicit operation.
- Prosecutors in Bologna, working with Eurojust, secured seizures of foreign servers and the application's source code, while parallel operations were carried out in France and Germany.
- The Guardia also uncovered traditional illegal streaming devices known as "pezzotto" and will issue fines for 1,000 identified users ranging from €154 to €5,000.
- Bypassing security checks, the system used fictitious account holders and avoided detection by not requiring connections tied to specific IP addresses, making enforcement difficult.
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Maxi operation of the Ravenna Finance Guard: more than one hundred searches and seizures in Italy, France and Germany, 300 million uncollected rights
·Turin, Italy
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The investigation of the Guardia di Finanza of Ravenna, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Bologna, has allowed to bring to light a new system to access the contents of the digital platforms in an illegal way: "On the territory there was that distributed the product and the various packages offered"
·Italy
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