European police pull plug on 'largest' illegal streaming service


To evade authorities, the suspects allegedly used encrypted messaging services to communicate and false identities to register phone numbers, credit cards, server rentals and television subscriptions. — Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash

THE HAGUE: An international police operation has shut down "one of the world's largest" illegal online streaming services, used by some 22 million people worldwide and causing billions of euros in copyright damages, EU law agencies said on Wednesday.

Police from nine EU countries and Britain swooped on suspects on Tuesday, shutting down servers and carrying out searches, Eurojust and Europol said in separate statements.

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