{"id":1198128,"date":"2023-10-30T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198128"},"modified":"2023-10-30T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T00:02:00","slug":"brazil-regulator-claims-80-of-pirate-tv-boxes-were-blocked-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198128","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Regulator Claims &#039;80% of Pirate TV Boxes&#039; Were Blocked Last Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Brazil&#8217;s telecoms regulator Anatel claims that during an operation last week, it successfully blocked around 80% of pirate &#8216;TV boxes&#8217; 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 &amp; Cisco were criticized for &#8220;turning a blind eye&#8221; to the IPTV piracy problem. [&#8230;] Whatever the approach, if Anatel had somehow managed to prevent 80% of all TV boxes receiving pirated content in the space of a year, that would be an extraordinary achievement. Even a week would be astonishing but the claim of millions in a day seems either incredible, non-credible, or entirely dependent on more important information or nuance that isn&#8217;t being reported. Another angle is that disruption on a large scale tends to register in search results and Google data on various related search terms doesn&#8217;t seem to reflect millions of TV boxes suddenly going dark in Brazil last week. At least, not for any significant length of time.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Brazil+Regulator+Claims+'80%25+of+Pirate+TV+Boxes'+Were+Blocked+Last+Week%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F30%2F2053217%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twitter_icon_large-1173.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F30%2F2053217%2Fbrazil-regulator-claims-80-of-pirate-tv-boxes-were-blocked-last-week%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/facebook_icon_large-586.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/30\/2053217\/brazil-regulator-claims-80-of-pirate-tv-boxes-were-blocked-last-week?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/30\/2053217\/brazil-regulator-claims-80-of-pirate-tv-boxes-were-blocked-last-week?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazil Regulator Claims &#8216;80% of Pirate TV Boxes&#8217; Were Blocked Last Week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Brazil&#8217;s telecoms regulator Anatel claims that during an operation last week, it successfully blocked around 80% of pirate &#8216;TV boxes&#8217; in the country. 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