Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Broadband TV News December 10, 2012 11.48 Europe/London By A joint operation between content security companies Irdeto and Nagra and the pay-TV company M7 has resulted in the conviction of a Belgian TV pirate Ahmad Masroor was convicted in court in Herselt Court for operating an illegal commercial control word sharing server Masroor was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment and ordered to forfeit €50,000 in a PayPal account that was used to collect subscriptions to the illegal service Work on the case began in 2009 and was focused on the CCcam.tv website that offered pirate subscriptions to pay-TV content including M7’s TV Vlaanderen “M7 will continue to fight piracy with both legal and technical means We have joint forces with CA vendors and other pay TV operators throughout Europe to further increase the effect of our counter measures,” said Hans Troelstra Masroor had been using control word sharing piracy illegally using a regularly changing control word that is passed between a smart card and a set-top-box A security director of the Irdeto Anti-Piracy & Forensics Unit “The result of this case is significant not only for the strong conviction but is one of the first cases where assets in the form of profits in a PayPal account were forfeited Julian Clover is a Media and Technology journalist based in Cambridge, UK. He works in online and printed media. Julian is also a voice on local radio. You can talk to Julian on X @julianclover, or by email at jclover@broadbandtvnews.com Today, consumers are increasingly using bandwidth-intensive and latency-sensitive workloads, such as 4K and 8K streaming, online gaming, and AR/VR applications. As a result, Internet Service Providers must update their networks and by extension Wi-Fi experiences and performance. … [Download the White Paper ...] Copyright © 2025 Broadband TV News LLP · Log in