Jazztel proposed an initiative days ago to offer free channels and thus improve its television offering so that many think about it before switching to watching pirated content on IPTV. And this type of streaming is currently on the rise, although now it will be more difficult to watch first and second division matches without paying a euro after The Civil Guard has deactivated the most important streaming channel in Spain.
He was known as ‘Blue Crystal’and offered paid football matches completely free of charge to around 78,000 users and with a loss of more than 42 million euros. The investigation was carried out due to the joint complaint presented by LaLiga and Movistar, which has become the investigation of the alleged car: a 37-year-old man in the framework of the operation that has been called ‘Blue Corsario’.
In this investigation the messaging app appears Telegram as the channel chosen to broadcast the matches of the first and second division of Spain completely free of charge; Just recently the messaging app had to start collaborating with the authorities after the events faced by its CEO, Pavel Durov, who was arrested in France for a few days.
It all has to do with KODI, a widely used player that is responsible for organizing and playing videos, images and audio from the user’s own audiovisual library or from streaming over the Internet. Civil Guard investigators detected that one of the extensions created by a third-party developer allowed playing football games totally free.
Everything led to the tracking of the source code of the ‘add on’ and a series of searches for information that determined that the football matches were broadcast from Telegram. An investigation was carried out on the source code of the KODI extension in which a series of pseudonyms appeared.
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After downloading the extension, it was concluded that belonged to a specific user to go to their full identification of the author when comparing the data with police databases. The operation culminated in the investigation of a 37-year-old man for a crime related to the market and consumers with a fraud of more than 42 million euros, the elimination of the Telegram channels in which the matches were played and the code used. for the extension used by KODI.
