Europol dismantles network of illegal streaming of sports and other pirated content


Trucks queue next to a sign reading ‘Republic of Bulgaria’, at Bulgarian-Greece border checkpoint Kulata, Bulgaria. The operation involved 15 countries, including Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. — AP

MADRID: A Europol operation during last summer's European Championship and Paris Olympics dismantled a network of several hundred providers of illegal streaming of sports and other pirated content, Spain's top soccer league said Jan 2.

The European Union's law enforcement agency identified more than 560 resellers of pirated content that included streaming of movies, series and TV channels. La Liga, which cooperated in the investigation, said more than 100 suspects were identified and 11 were arrested.

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