The Guardia di Finanza returns to beat the "pezzotto", the system that allows, through fake subscriptions, the viewing of works and sporting events at a significantly lower price than that offered by the legitimate owners of the broadcasting rights. In the sights of the Authority this time there are no fraudulent IPTV service providers, but end users who risk very high penalties and even up to 8 years of imprisonment.
The news is official and was reported by the GdF itself, which writes that it has 223 people identified and reported to the Judicial Authority responsible for purchasing pirated subscriptions on the internet that allowed you to view the contents of the main pay TV platforms. The identification of the people who would have illegally seen films, series and sporting events took place following a long and complex investigative activity carried out by the GdF.
Clients at risk of high penalties: 223 identified and reported
The activity, carried out specifically by the Special Goods and Services Unit of the Guardia di Finanza, led to the identification of several subjects responsible for conducting the offense: of these, 223 have already been reported to the competent judicial authority, but we aim to proceed to identify further possible subjects involved.
By purchasing subscriptions of this type, in fact, customers make themselves responsible for receiving stolen goods and, in these cases, the law provides for the confiscation of the tools used for the use of the service. As a consequence, all the clients of the piece deemed guilty will come confiscated televisions, computers and smartphones. The penalties for the client also provide for imprisonment of up to eight years at a fine of 25,000 euros, in addition to legal costs.
The investigative activity has the ultimate aim of dismantling one of the main illicit distribution methods for content, that is, through IPTV (Internet Protocol Television). In this mode, the "pirates" acquire and re-code the television schedules of platforms such as DAZN, Sky, Mediaset Premium, among the main ones, and redistribute them through the internet through a receivable data stream with the subscription of a subscription.
The flow can be received via a decoder, or directly on a PC, Smart TV, tablet and smartphone. Furthermore, the main objective of the investigations is to identify the illegal signal transmission center, which is not a simple operation due to the dozens of resellers and the hundreds of customers that feed this criminal circuit. THE risks to customers, often unaware of the dangers of subscribing to these subscriptions, are not just legal.
Those who purchase a subscription to the "pezzotto", in fact, often he finds himself having to share his personal and sensitive data, including personal and bank data, with real criminal realities, therefore leaving a trace of the illegal activities carried out and exposing itself at the same time to risks, including IT risks, of various types.
