Brazil’s telecoms regulator Anatel claims that during an operation last week, it successfully blocked around 80% of pirate ‘TV boxes’ 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 & Cisco were criticized for “turning a blind eye” to the IPTV piracy problem.
I don’t trust those numbers given that my TV box is still working, my neighbour’s TV box is still working, and nothing changed.
Anatel is a mafia LARPing as a very, very incompetent regulator.
They mentioned in the article that Google search tends from Brasil don’t seem to indicate any uptick in searches related to pirate TV boxes being seized or not working, either. So, this story is looking likely to be entirely fabricated propaganda.
Anatel is a mafia LARPing as a very, very incompetent regulator.
Please elaborate how bad is Anatel compared to other countries regulators?
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You could install CF on the android box, install vpn and configure DNS to cloudflare or quad9 or something, install Kodi with the right repos, and have full functionality back
As if 80% of the users would do that. The reality in Brazil might not be what you think, those people aren’t’ tech savvy people, not even close. They’re most likely people who bought a box from someone selling them door-to-door that was it.
generally speaking people who buy preconfigured IPTV systems aren’t able to do it themselves, hence paying money for someone else to do it.
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Fair enough. Maybe some slightly more tech savvy Brazilians are reading this right now though lol
Yeah but those will get pirated content either way. The problem is the 80% that won’t be able to do it as just trash the boxes.
I’m interested in figuring out what communications company is interested in creating this type of headline about IPTV and Brazil. It makes no sense. There is a corporate or political interest behind this headline.
