Italy busts €300 million streaming piracy ring

Italy’s financial police said on Friday they had busted a sophisticated streaming piracy network that caused roughly €300 million ($348 million) in damages to rights holders such as Sky, DAZN, Netflix, Disney+ and Spotify.

The ‌operation targeted ⁠previously ⁠unseen technology built around an application called CINEMAGOAL, which connected users’ devices to foreign servers that illegally decrypted streaming content, the Guardia di Finanza police said.