Hacking: ATN sentenced in Sweden to pay €20m in damages to beIN Media Group and Digitalb

A Swedish court has sentenced ATN, "the largest Arab IPTV provider in the world", to pay €18.8m in damages to the Qatari media group beIN Media Group and €1.4m in damages to the Albanian pay-TV group Digitalb, on 03/07/2018.

"The three defendants were tried for various crimes under Swedish law including Violation of the Decoder Act, Violation of the Copyright Act, Crimes against the Offensive Weapons Act and Crime against the Trademark Act," said Nordic Content Protection, a Swedish-based anti-piracy group, that was behind the complaint filed against ATN in 2016.

• "ATN is based in Malmö, Sweden but also has operations in the United States, Greece, Denmark and Canada. Its activities consist of appropriating the reception and then decoding, packaging and re-transmitting television broadcasts to its own paying clientele. The pirate network has provided its customers with access to illegal pirate streams of over 2,000 channels, with a focus on channels emanating from the Middle East and Turkey," said Nordic Content Protection on 03/07/2018.
• ATN broadcasts, among others, the Saudi…