The service provides M3u URL that lets you access the IPTV services on your Fire TV Stick. The app also provides EPG that lets you find the entire program details quickly. Without a doubt, one of the biggest blows to pirate IPTV platforms is that more than one service thinks twice before continuing to offer content illegally.Nitro TV IPTV has a user-friendly interface and it is also fully compatible with the FireStick remote. In addition, this complaint does not include the costs of lawyers or the trial. According to DISH, the lucrative goal of this pirated ITPV is demonstrated, citing the Hollywood lawsuit to demonstrate the defendants’ broader involvement in piracy of copyrighted content.
Therefore, statutory damages must be awarded in the amount of $100,363,000 (100,363x $1,000), jointly and severally against Defendants,” says the motion to default.ĭISH makes it clear that the requested damages are much lower than the real ones, since the defendants also received subscription payments through Facebook Pay, Coinbase and Paymentech, but not being able to know how many subscriptions were made through these platforms, they have preferred not to take them into account.īut yeah They have been able to prove that Alejandro and Martha Galindo, sole administrators of Nitro TV, received more than 5.5 million dollars in two bank accounts. “ Account records provided to Plaintiffs show that Defendants sold at least 100,363 Device Codes. To avoid getting your fingers caught and the court rejecting the case have preferred that each non-compliance be fined by 1000 dollarsyes And considering that Nitro TV subscriptions exceeded 100,000 customers, the fine could be as high as $100 million. Under the DMCA, each violation of section 1201(a)(1)(A) allows statutory damages ranging from $200 to $2,500. And the fact that the defendants bypassed Sling’s DRM to broadcast their content illicitly has been ongoing and for profit.ĭISH says that section 605(a) of the FCA allows them to recover statutory damages in the amount of $1,000 to $110,00 per violation, while section 605(e)(4) allows $10,000 to $100,000 per violation. DISH says that the DMCA prohibits a person from circumventing a technological measure that controls access to a copyrighted work. Now, a new default motion in which DISH and its partners have laid out the reasons why they should be compensated points to a historic fine that could reach 100 million euros.ĭISH claims to have evidence that Nitro TV illegally accessed its broadcasts to sell the signal to subscribers of this pirate IPTV. What’s more, none of the defendants responded to the lawsuitso now the case is moving towards a resounding victory for the plaintiffs, while the defendants are considered in default. Everything came from the unauthorized use of satellite signals and avoiding Slink’s DRM. This demand did not accuse them of copyright infringement, but of violating the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA and violations of the Federal Communications Act (FCA). According to the DISH, Sling, and NagraStar plaintiffs, the defendants they received millions of dollars in exchange for subscriptions to their pirate service. The first complaints, which included an accusation of destruction of evidence along with a second lawsuit from DISH Network, have been severe blows for this illegal platform. 100 million dollars for distributing content through a pirate IPTV This accusation pointed to a married couple (accused of creating the entire conglomerate to sell the services of their platform) in addition to a YouTuber who helped out by promoting Nitro TV on his channel.
It all started in 2020, when a coalition of companies led by Universal, Disney, Amazon, Columbia and Paramount filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the pirated IPTV service Nitro TV. And now we know that the operators behind this illegal service are facing a historic fine: 100 million dollars, about 91.80 million euros to change. In August 2021 we inform you of u A new blow to pirate IPTV services where DISH Network sued Nitro TV for different copyright infringements for illegally offering paid content.
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