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Xtream Codes website taken down re IPTV

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if you're having issues with iptv not working on enigma2 boxes then check with your provider if they have another way of watching it, ie via a web portal on computer (even better if you can then cast to tv). I know a lot of people that it's not clearing for on their boxes while others it is but using the web portal or firestick it works fine.

Not ideal but it will get you by.
 
grog68 said:
if you're having issues with iptv not working on enigma2 boxes then check with your provider if they have another way of watching it, ie via a web portal on computer (even better if you can then cast to tv). I know a lot of people that it's not clearing for on their boxes while others it is but using the web portal or firestick it works fine.

Not ideal but it will get you by.
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i`m running it on firestick with smarters and it all went off sometime over night, so its down to my provider or will his system of rebooted over night and f**ked it up
 
Pirateria tv, chiusa Xtream Codes: 700mila clienti italiani rischiano multa da 25.000 euro

Over 5 million users in Italy alone , for an estimated turnover of around 60 million euros per year. These are the numbers, according to the investigators, of the illegal platform that was targeted by the anti-piracy operation , coordinated by the Naples prosecutor's office and signed today by the finance guard against pirate TV stations . The Xtream Codes platform , conceived by two Greek citizens, allows the transformation into computer data of audiovisual flows protected by copyright . The members of the organization, as emerged from the investigations, prepared and managed abroad IT spaces through which they relayed the signals on a large scale, even in Italy.

Football against TV piracy: "There is ArabSat behind the beoutQ channel" Matches of Seria A, the European cups, and then films, TV series. All "offered" to users through a single pirate platform for 12 euros a month. Thus an international organization, finished under the lens of the prosecutor's office of Naples and Eurojust, from 2015 has defrauded the pay TV system through the so-called « pezzotto », obtaining revenues of 60 million euros a year.
 
It’s in there interest to get things back up and running with the amount of money that’s involved, it might take a day or week, even longer but my provide is keeping me updated regularly and has said to keep any end user updated as they are migrating to another option.

We have had it good for so long it’s time to take the rough with the smooth.
 
grog68 said:
if you're having issues with iptv not working on enigma2 boxes then check with your provider if they have another way of watching it, ie via a web portal on computer (even better if you can then cast to tv). I know a lot of people that it's not clearing for on their boxes while others it is but using the web portal or firestick it works fine.

Not ideal but it will get you by.
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If your on enigma2 go to the xe downloader plug-in and change the iptv player to iptv and press blue button. This should work and you’ll get channels back (providing your provider hasn’t gone offline and your sub is in date)....it worked for me
 
NotTechSavvy85 said:
If your on enigma2 go to the xe downloader plug-in and change the iptv player to iptv and press blue button. This should work and you’ll get channels back (providing your provider hasn’t gone offline and your sub is in date)....it worked for me
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assuming your using xe on the box.

providers are migrating, it will take them as long as it takes as they need to make sure they have it done right. Everyone is in the same boat, but some will probably be back up to normal service before others, just be paitent.
 
Copied from u/svartchimpans on r/IPTV on reddit

Summary of information regarding EUROJUST raiding Xtream Codes
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Press conference: http://www.eurojust.europa.eu/video/PressRecording-full-lowerres.mp4
Press release: Eurojust helps unravel massive trans-European pay-TV fraud
  1. Xtream Codes panel/backend server and Facebook are down. Their servers were seized.
  2. The press conference is mainly given by a lot of non-technical morons (police team leaders perhaps) who are very confused about what they are talking about, for example ~13:00 they're talking about IPTV providers, IPTV decrypters, and Xtream Codes as if they are all the same company. They are not.
  3. 181 servers seized worldwide. 30 of which were main servers, and the rest "rebroadcast servers" (~27:00 in the video). At 21:00 in the video, the Netherlands representative says that their country specifically took down "93 servers at 1 location, servers that were used by a criminal group operating from Italy and focused on the Italian market for pay-TV; all information on the servers has been captured and transferred to the Italian police for further investigation" and "this criminal activity was not committed by Dutch (Netherlands) residents, and there is no mention yet of any Dutch (TV) companies that have become victims of this", which confirms that this was a bust of an italian IPTV provider, hosted in Netherlands, which just happened to also take down Xtream Codes.
  4. There is a chart showing every arrest (all Italian names, and all live in Italy except 1 in Malta and 2 in Germany but still Italian names), as well as the word Xtream Codes drawn as the "mastermind/core" behind the illegal network (haha):
    https://imgur.com/PKxeri3
    . Furthermore the chart shows that the decrypted signals (sent by the arrested people) were sent to an Italian server, which in turn sent the signals to many French and Russian servers, which in turn sent the signal to the final customers/viewers. The chart also shows that the French/Russian servers were the front-end for resellers, and that those servers were connected to Xtream Codes Bulgarian server for admin back-end, which is why Xtream Codes server in Bulgaria was seized too.
  5. Basically, according to the press conference, the entire investigation only took 2-3 months. It all began with Italians in NAPLES capturing 1 RESELLER MORON who sold illegal IPTV in Italy via a Facebook page where the idiot was selling subscriptions (this is why I hate mouthbreathing morons who create webpages and "pls share us on social media thxxxxx" for IPTV reselling). Then they used information on his computer to track more members/decryption staff/main staff of the service itself. They discovered that some members were outside Italy so they contacted EUROJUST and found out that this group was already under investigation by 5 EU countries (Italy, France, Germany, Bulgaria and Greece (at 33:50 in the video)), so they combined forces. Then they tracked and captured the other worldwide members of that reseller/decoder/provider-network (~22 people busted so far), and those are the photos you can see in the "bust" video of a room full of cables and TV box decoders, basically they busted team members who owned decoding hardware. They worked with worldwide police from EU (EUROJUST) and even Latin America, today (September 18th, 2019) to bust the Netherlands-servers and worldwide decoder staff (boxes in people's homes decrypting digital TV signals) owned by THAT Italian IPTV provider (the press conference REPEATEDLY and ONLY spoke about THAT SPECIFIC Italian IPTV provider). They had simultaneously tracked that it was all linked to Xtream Codes (mentioned from 27:50 in conference), so police seized their server too. The Netherlands police has now sent the Italian IPTV provider's server contents to Italy for further investigation. And the Xtream Codes server contents in Bulgaria was also seized and turned over to EUROJUST. So they have ALL the contents of the Xtream Codes master server now. The Xtream Codes panel itself does not host any illegal content, it just handles account and channel management where providers put in their own stream-URLs, so Xtream Codes itself didn't really do anything wrong, since it isn't their fault whatever streams the various IPTV providers add to their own admin accounts... Anyway, the EUROJUST team will now process all the seized evidence from all servers and decide what to do next...
  6. Again, this was a bust of ONE Italian IPTV provider, where they ALSO seized Xtream Codes "just because its admin panel was used to manage the illegal streams". The other IPTV providers that have gone down today at various places in the world have NOT!! been seized, because the press conference (and chart I linked above), spoke ONLY about the Italian IPTV provider and NOTHING else, and all the arrested individuals are Italians. So the other providers who shut down most likely just did it because they were spooked, or because "oh well Xtream Codes is offline, our backend management panel is gone, we will get tons of chargebacks and customer complaints, time to take the money and run".
  7. But here's the thing: Since the Xtream Codes server WAS seized, EUROJUST now has the "admin/infrastructure" data of MOST IPTV services in the world... meaning that they have the stream server IPs and reseller data (usernames, email addresses, credits) and customer data (username, password and last-used IPs) of all customers and all servers/illegal streams used by ALL IPTV PROVIDERS. So now they just have to look at the IPs of all stream servers in all Xtream Codes admin accounts, and they will know the EXACT IPs of the illegal channel servers for MOST IPTV PROVIDERS WORLDWIDE, and can simply send warrants to hosting providers around the whole world, to basically bring down all IPTV worldwide. What ******* genius decided to host/administrate all of that info via a single server (Xtream Codes) in Bulgaria?! Lazy idiots.
  8. At 25:20 there is a slide which says "<200 servers were seized, <150 PayPal accounts blocked, 22 suspects identified, Evidence seized: servers, digital equipment, payment instruments, record sheets" which tells us two things: First of all this was clearly just about the Italian IPTV provider, and Xtream Codes was seized as a side-project. Secondly, they did seize customer records, which speaks for itself: bleh.
  9. At 27:30 they CLAIM that the Italian group had 5 million Italian customers (that's ~8.3% of Italy's population, lol), earning them 2.18 million euros per month. The number of customers seems fake as hell, because 2.18m EUROs / 5m customers = each customer pays 0.436 EUR ($0.48) per month. Hahaha. I think this "5m" number is inflated as hell. The real number is probably ~180k customers paying ~12 eur per month each (this price was mentioned in an article)... but I guess they must lie about the numbers to make their corporate overlords in the TV industry happy. (PS: At 35:00 in the video you can see the human-penis-in-a-suit from one of those massive, greedy corporations who always litigate instead of innovate.)
  10. They estimate "800 million euros in lost revenue for the TV industry" (at 32:20 in video). This estimate is only for the Italian market and is roflcopter-too-damn-high. Anyway, this number is funny since most people on IPTV would NEVER buy cable TV exactly because it is too damn expensive and gives 98% bullshit programs that you don't want to watch. If there was no IPTV provider, most users would just pirate specific shows on piratebay instead. And anyway, I do not feel sorry for those "poor" ultra-rich worldwide mostly-leftist brainwashing TV corporations that pump out 98% propaganda/trash TV shows that massively dumb down the world. "Boo ******* hoo".
  11. Providers who used the Xtream Codes panel for managing accounts cannot add new users/edit existing users, since it is all offline.
  12. But that is the LEAST of their worries, since worldwide police knows all of their server IPs now. Congrats, morons, you placed it all in one location with some random Bulgarian company named Xtream Codes. GG.
  13. The providers all have locally hosted Xtream Codes panels for customer connections which means end-users still don't notice anything wrong yet. But those self-hosted panels may go offline soon when they can no longer connect home to Xtream Codes to verify their license. I am not sure how long those servers will function after the XC master server went down.
  14. There also seems to be providers using a cracked version of Xtream Codes panel, so those providers are not affected, since a cracked version of XC doesn't connect home to verify its license or manage its accounts/stream links.
  15. There are apparently millions of user accounts seized. A whopping 800 thousand customer accounts were ONLINE (watching TV) DURING the bust, so imagine all the offline customers (according to an article I linked above, there were 50 million customer accounts on the Xtream Codes server). The "800k" number is clearly not just for the stupid and easily-busted Italian provider with their mere 150ish "broadcast servers", since those would not be able to handle 800k viewers at once (that would mean those servers had 5333 active streams per server, which assuming standard gigabit connections per server would mean each stream is encoded at ~0.18mbit bitrate, but 1080p HD streams require 3.5-6mbit or higher per channel, so the math/lies by EUROJUST is yet again not making any sense, and the CPU usage that would be required per-server for streaming to that many people is unrealistic too)... That number is clearly either for Xtream Codes as a whole (meaning the entire worldwide IPTV market had 800k viewers active during the raid), or perhaps it's yet another fake number by EUROJUST...
  16. People who have bought IPTV from ANY provider that used Xtream Codes panel internally (for account/playlist management) are known by your IP now, since Xtream Codes tracks your IP for detecting shared accounts/multi-logins. M3U is not safe either, since almost all M3U playlists were generated by Xtream Codes.
  17. However... they said that most regular customers aren't even aware that the services are illegal, and that the police's main goal is to go after the source (decrypters/providers/resellers) instead. Today, with the capture of the idiotically designed Xtream Codes "master list" server, the police now know all server infrastructure IPs and resellers for over 5000 IPTV providers worldwide, so we'll see what they do with that information in the coming days and weeks... It's very likely that almost all of the IPTV provider servers will be seized by police, and that any resellers who were listed with insecure contact information (such as gmail) in the databases are probably also going to be busted... But regular customers are too many and too much hassle, so the customers should still be safe... It may take a long time for the IPTV scene to recover from this... it depends on how hard they go after the providers on the list...
 
Everyone keeps saying that if your provider etc is any good then they are already migrating. People are assuming the alternatives to XC are great, the reality is XC was the biggest for a reason.

Simply migrating to any old platform isn't the most sensible options. Also a couple of new options seem to be far more pronounced in the market place, who is to say that these systems have not been compromised. Equally those saying pirate version of XC, what's to say these versions are not leaking data left right and centre. I think everyone should proceed with caution.
 
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mbath said:
Everyone keeps saying that if your provider etc is any good then they are already migrating. People are assuming the alternatives to XC are great, the reality is XC was the biggest for a reason.

Simply migrating to any old platform isn't the most sensible options. Also a couple of new options seem to be far more pronounced in the market place, who is to say that these systems have not been compromised. Equally those saying pirate version of XC, what's to say these versions are not leaking data left right and centre. I think everyone should proceed with caution.
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script has been released for some on XC but not by means many are used to. Other than that and using alternative options out there that in your words is... “old platform”
I think best advise you should of stated was just pay the empire all there dues.

In the real world things like this dont run like clock work, from people wanting access to goodies for £10 a year in 4K sports till a massive issue that has happened in the last 36 hours and as options run dry year by year “caution” is needed!!!!
Maybe best to look at alternatives mate.
Its been advised for a longtime “NOT” to take a long sub out. Maybe 3, 6 months at a time.
Now issue has happened and all heads are knocking together to get over this hurdle and its “caution” and old “platforms” is new hurdle.

(what has happened to the tech scene nowadays)
 
Sorry don't get your reply pal. You quoted my posting but it makes no real sense in regards to what I said.
 
XC pirate version is known for leaking data in the past.

Why shouldn't people proceed with caution? People have been arrested, it would be silly for people both providers and users to make rash decisions. Unfortunately in situations like this the scrum of the earth tend to crop up and rip off those that are non the wiser.

It's unfortunate but does happen. Imagine those that find a solution first, there is doubt scumbags out there are ready and waiting to sell dirt cheap subs and then do a runner. To be clear I'm not saying that's everyone hence my "proceed with caution" comment.
 
Won't most look for cracked xc panels as would seem more stable and tested but we all need a bit of caution now with what has been reported but you know the left hand biased media
 
I don't believe any of the figures quoted by the Italians yesterday for one.

There are other panels but some of these haven't been tested under the sort of loads that they are going to be put under now. I do believe XC when they said they had over 180,000 servers. That's a lot...Also a couple of these panels are one man bands, almost run as a hobby business. How are they going to cope supporting the massive influx they could see? Will they be happy getting the limelight? Aot of providers are switching to nulled XC simply because it takes them off the radar a bit.

IPTV had become a bit like CS before it was stopped. Everyone was talking about it and everyone was selling it. Maybe this will rhin it out a bit and make people think before advertising on social media.
 
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