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Brazil Regulator Claims "80% of Pirate TV Boxes" Were Blocked Last Week * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Brazil's telecoms regulator Anatel claims that during an operation last week, it successfully blocked around 80% of pirate 'TV boxes' in the country. Estimates from early 2023 suggest that seven million were active in Brazil. The operation, claimed to be the most significant ever carried out, arrives just weeks after Google & Cisco were criticized for "turning a blind eye" to the IPTV piracy problem.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't trust those numbers given that my TV box is still working, my neighbour's TV box is still working, and nothing changed.

Anatel is a mafia LARPing as a very, very incompetent regulator.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

They mentioned in the article that Google search tends from Brasil don't seem to indicate any uptick in searches related to pirate TV boxes being seized or not working, either. So, this story is looking likely to be entirely fabricated propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Anatel is a mafia LARPing as a very, very incompetent regulator.

Please elaborate how bad is Anatel compared to other countries regulators?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I'm interested in figuring out what communications company is interested in creating this type of headline about IPTV and Brazil. It makes no sense. There is a corporate or political interest behind this headline.