Originally published at: DISH Identifies Lemo/Kemo IPTV Operators & Sues for $27M
DISH Network has identified the operators behind Kemo IPTV and LemoTV, and filed a major lawsuit seeking $27 million in damages. The pay TV provider filed a complaint in Florida federal court naming the alleged operators of these pirate IPTV services. DISH also sued a U.S.-based reseller called ‘1 Dollar IPTV’ that helped distribute the…
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50 Malaysian guys with Brooks Bros Suits soon replaced by 50 Outer Mongolian goat herders in Louis Vitton casual wear.
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It seems all dish network does is sue people, im thinking thats the only way they can make any money
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Card sharing has been around for the longest…
It’s not new by any means…
Maybe I’m confused… why would copyright protected material be freely available? Shouldn’t it be password protected or somehow otherwise secured?
And if copyright protected material is “freely available”, how would you know it’s “copyright protected”?
This is an illegal iptv service who stole streams from dish and then rebroadcast them through their own service.
Ok. Obviously i’m not the brightest bulb in the box… all the M3U’s that i use are password/userid protected….
If some company is broadcasting using an insecure link, and someone finds out what that link is….
I don’t remember seeing any copyright information on the news broadcasts that I watch..
Is there somewhere that you can lookup and see that a particular show is copyrighted?
What am I missing here?
DISH has been in decline for years. Charlie Ergen isn’t making money like they use to and make very poor business decisions. I dropped them about 5 years ago when I realized they could care less for long term customers. Went with YTTV for a few years and dumped them. Streaming now and love it
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Charlie was doing this back in the days of big dish satellite companies. Does go away for a while, until something else comes along. Eventually, he either gets tired of all the suits, or getting shut down all the time.
I was a Dish user for years, but then price increases and terrible customer service crept in until the service was almost unusable. Then they started charging fees to use equipment that you own and that was the last straw. I cost me quite a bit of money to get out from the Didh contract. I truly hope they burn in hell just like cable providers that gouged customers for 20 years. These companies are only interested in squeezing every dollar they can and customer service be damned. I have no remorse using iptv or Kodi to get some of my money back.
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@mcorrow1988….if you watch it- on TV, phone, PC, movie theater-….,hear it- on radio, music service, pod cast…., or read it- book, magazine newspaper…., then there is a copyright on it. hope that helps
the cable companies have been around since at least 1975 or so. That means 50+ years of screwing the public with overpriced service. Similar to health insurance.
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I agree completely that’s why I went to streaming
I have to wonder where the streams come from. I presume the content owners or the stations? Why are they so readily available to “pirates”? Seems to me the problem is securing their streams. Do that and problem solved.
I fired them for same reason. I’d been with them 19 years using the same equipment. Never got new or had a tech come out. Finally the Hopper broke and I called to see about getting it fixed. They wanted me to pay for shipping a new one, plus pay for sending a tech out to install it, but first I had to buy a monthly charged warranty or pay off the remaining subscription and return the broken box. I am fully capable of installing a new box, I don’t need a tech. So they said that the tech was to see if the 19- year-old- one could be fixed. They were unrelenting. Either or. So I paid off the subscription and returned the box. Seems to me they are nitpicking and squeezing every penny but making customers mad and losing them. Then while squeezing the customer they are spending millions to go after iptvs that wouldn’t be in business if Dish didn’t overcharge and squeeze every penny in the first place.
Direct TV gave up fighting against IPTVs and has joined them but it’s too late. They charge way more than most streaming companies. A whole lot less than they used to charge and a move that would have been smart before they waited too long and let all these IPTVs crop up. Now they are the most expensive again in an inexpensive crowd.
I dumped Dish when they wanted me to pay rent on the boxes I owned. That was it for me. I still have a box full of Dish equipment that will go to the dump when I die.