TY - GEN
T1 - Iniquitous Cord-Cutting
T2 - 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, EUROS and PW 2019
AU - Pandey, Prakhar
AU - Aliapoulios, Maxwell
AU - McCoy, Damon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - Large scale, subscription based, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) media piracy is occurring despite current copy-right enforcement efforts. Cybercriminals are abusing legitimate services to setup and maintain illegitimate business operations offering pirated media content on a subscription basis. Due to the underground aspect of these pirated IPTV operations, these services are not well understood and so current enforcement action against them appear to not be effective. In this paper, we empirically measure the network infrastructure, payment, and order intermediary services that are used by a subset of the infringing IPTV ecosystem. We demonstrate how the measurements we make in this paper give insight into the business behind subscription based pirated media. Lastly, we show how these measurements can lead to potentially more informed policy decisions and intervention measures against subscription based IPTV piracy.
AB - Large scale, subscription based, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) media piracy is occurring despite current copy-right enforcement efforts. Cybercriminals are abusing legitimate services to setup and maintain illegitimate business operations offering pirated media content on a subscription basis. Due to the underground aspect of these pirated IPTV operations, these services are not well understood and so current enforcement action against them appear to not be effective. In this paper, we empirically measure the network infrastructure, payment, and order intermediary services that are used by a subset of the infringing IPTV ecosystem. We demonstrate how the measurements we make in this paper give insight into the business behind subscription based pirated media. Lastly, we show how these measurements can lead to potentially more informed policy decisions and intervention measures against subscription based IPTV piracy.
KW - Cybercrime
KW - IPTV
KW - Media piracy
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U2 - 10.1109/EuroSPW.2019.00054
DO - 10.1109/EuroSPW.2019.00054
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85071906031
T3 - Proceedings - 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, EUROS and PW 2019
SP - 423
EP - 432
BT - Proceedings - 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, EUROS and PW 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 17 June 2019 through 19 June 2019
ER -