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I wonder why all those articles about video streaming pirates use the term IPTV to describe illegal video streaming services.

IPTV is a term for some clearly standardized and perfectly legal technology to deliver television services. Check the wikipedia page and definitions maybe [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol_television

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As someone in the media technology business, it's very frustrating for me that the pirate streaming industry has co-opted the name IPTV for it's offerings.

But it's not the articles that are driving it, it's the pirates themselves who have done it and the articles following that nomenclature. If you go online the search results for IPTV are very much about pirate services and tools now.

In the previous work I was involved in, I was responsible for technical measures against piracy and had to get comfortable with the services being called IPTV.

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