Spanish Supreme Court orders temporary block of Telegram – Tablets and phones – News

In Spain we have a number of streaming platforms created by the major TV companies and ISPs (Atresplayer, Mitele, RTVE, Movistar+, etc).

Episodes often last 24 hours earlier and in one Higher quality broadcast online rather than on TV. In addition, there are no advertisements in the streams, but there are on TV. The difference is really enormous. A TV program online might only last 50 minutes while on TV it lasts 90 minutes. Sometimes you even get extra content online, such as an extra hour before or after the TV broadcast.

What happened on Telegram is that people have massively created groups for each TV program where 1 person pays for the streaming service and then shares the MP4 file with everyone in the channel. For example, there is a group for “Isla de las Tentaciones” (=Temptation Island) with more than 40,000 members that has been used for 4 years to “chat” about the episodes and to download the stream.
And because it is not P2P, you download the 1GB TV program from the Telegram servers in seconds.

EDIT for those interested: This story is interesting because Movistar is one of the plaintiffs. Movistar is the largest ISP in Spain. In addition, they are also a TV company that has its own TV channels and has the rights to broadcast all football matches.
As an ISP, they take very hard action, because they themselves suffer from the illegal distribution of TV programs. They have ensured that all ISPs must block illegal streams within a few minutes after they are centrally reported. If an illegal IPTV stream starts broadcasting a football match, it can be blocked by all Spanish ISPs within a few minutes.

[Reactie gewijzigd door Rex op 23 maart 2024 16:16]