Brazil telecom regulator Anatel claims that during an operation last week, it blocked around 80% of country's pirate 'TV boxes'.

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.

    • blindsight@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • T (they/she)@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Anatel is a mafia LARPing as a very, very incompetent regulator.

      Please elaborate how bad is Anatel compared to other countries regulators?