Overview
- Four people were arrested in raids last week, with a 49-year-old man and two women aged 21 and 40 from Bolton and a 40-year-old man from Blackpool, and all were later released under investigation.
- City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit seized ten servers and associated equipment valued at about £750,000.
- Officers shut down the servers on site, and Sky reported widespread disruption to unauthorized streaming across the UK.
- Investigators say the illicit service supplied millions of users, and one suspect is alleged to have generated more than £3 million in revenue.
- Police and Sky describe the operation as organized criminality and warn users about legal penalties and malware risks as coordinated enforcement continues.