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25 January 2015 124 websites blacked out by the financiers of the Special Unit Command in a vast operation to combat audiovisual piracy. The special unit for technological fraud - explains a note - has carried out a seizure order of the Capitoline investigating judge Gaspare Sturzo as part of an investigation coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome.
The investigations, developed with the collaboration of the Special Radiodiffusione Publishing Unit, made it possible to verify how the sites in question broadcast numerous sporting events and entire championships of multiple sports disciplines, as well as musical concerts and cinematographic and television works without owning the relative rights, belonging to multiple operators of pay TV and not, national and foreign.
In particular, it was ascertained that pirated contents were offered both in "live streaming" mode, that is live, and in "streaming on demand", at the request of users. All the sites, located on servers abroad, reported real schedules organized to facilitate the choice of the favorite program.
Their main source of income is linked to the advertising banners placed in the course of broadcasts in paths that the viewer is obliged to follow. The surveys have also found that part of the advertising contacts are fictitious, since fraudulent automatisms have been inserted that count periodic clicks on banners, in reality never occurred by the user who uses online TV programs.
Among the seized domains, one has sprung up, "sportlemon.tv", registered in the name of the Swedish Gottfrid Swartholm, already known to international judicial reports as co-founder of the illegal site "The Pirate Bay" and sentenced in his country, in 2009, to one year in prison for copyright infringement and in 2013 for fraud and aggravated hacking.