MultiChoice warning about people who pirate sports channels
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MultiChoice warns that the increase in sports streaming piracy has reached a crisis level, posing a threat not just to its business but to the global sports ecosystem—including clubs, athletes, production crews, and sports development funding .
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The company reports a shift in strategy: targeting suspicious account holders and unauthorized streams, not just secondary resellers .
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Irdeto, MultiChoice’s cybersecurity partner, has disconnected tens of thousands of pirate streamers in the 2025 financial year—49,000 as of recently, a 63% increase over the prior year .
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MultiChoice confirms it’s collaborating closely with law enforcement, planning to pursue civil litigation and potentially criminal charges against individual users once investigations identify them .
