On the orders of the Anti-Mafia District Directorate of the Catania Public Prosecutor's Office, the Police carried out a vast operation against audiovisual piracy with searches in several Italian cities and the indictment of 21 people. A criminal association was uncovered, hierarchically organized and having as its purpose the constant distribution to a very high number of users, nationally and internationally, of live programming and on-demand content protected by television rights, owned by the most well-known television platforms - such as Sky, Dazn, Mediaset, Amazon Prime, Netflix - through the system of illegal IPTVs, with monthly profits of several million euros. The system had been going on for years. The people under investigation live in Catania, Messina, Syracuse, Cosenza, Alessandria, Naples, Salerno, Reggio Emilia, Pisa, Lucca, Livorno, and Bari.
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