The Civil Guard has deactivated the most important pirate streaming channel in Spain, Cristal Azul, which offered free paid football matches from the Spanish First and Second Division to some 78,000 users, causing damage of more than 42 million euros. The investigation of the armed institute occurred following a joint complaint presented by LaLiga and Movistar that has culminated in the investigation of the alleged perpetrator, a 37-year-old man, within the framework of the operation Blue Corsair.
Through the KODI player, which allows you to organize and play videos, images and audio in delayed, online or streaming, the researchers detected that one of the extensions or “add on” created by a developer external to the platform allowed the viewing of football for free, as reported this Friday by the Madrid Command in a note. From here, members of the Technological Research Team (EDITE) tracked down the source code of the extension or “add on” and, after different searches for information, determined that the soccer games were broadcast through the messaging application. Telegram snapshot.
Subsequently, the investigations focused on determining the authorship of the events, through the investigation of the pseudonyms that appeared in the source code within the extension where the paid football content was broadcast. After downloading the extension, the agents concluded that it belonged to a specific user and fully identified the author by comparing the data with police databases. The operation culminated in the investigation of a 37-year-old man for a crime related to the market and consumers, with an estimated fraud of more than 42 million euros, as well as the elimination of the Telegram channels in which the matches were played. and also the programming code used illegitimately.
