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Pirate IPTV Owner's Conviction First Ever Under Protecting Lawful Streaming Act * TorrentFreak
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Passed by Congress late December 2020, the Protecting Lawful Streaming Act (PLSA) was crafted to urgently close a loophole in copyright law that treated unlicensed reproduction and distribution as a felony, but unlicensed streaming as a misdemeanor. This week, well over three years later, a 40-year-old former operator of an illicit IPTV service became the first person to be convicted under the PLSA. While a win is a win, the case wasn't entirely straightforward.
From the perspective of a piracy community, however, that's not a win.