A Finnish prosecutor has announced that it has filed charges against an operator of an illegal IPTV service. The indictment alleges that the service was established and maintained to provide paid access to a large number of movies and television channels without the permission of the rights holders. According to the prosecutor’s statement, the service offered customers a subscription that included numerous TV channels and streaming content that was distributed without authorization. The indictment also claims that the operator sold viewing and listening tokens for copyrighted material and that these tokens were sold to customers without the consent of the copyright owners. In addition, the prosecutor says that the operator sold viewing rights for content packages that it had purchased for its own use to the service’s customers. The crimes are said to have taken place in two separate periods: 2021‑2025 and 2023‑2025. In each period, one suspect is named in the indictment. The prosecutor’s announcement follows reports by the Finnish tabloid Iltalehti, which in September said that illegal IPTV services were being used in roughly 126,000 Finnish households during the spring of 2026. A year earlier, the same outlet reported that about 215,000 households were using such services. IPTV, which stands for “Internet Protocol Television,” refers to the delivery of television and other video content over the internet. The technology itself is not illegal; the alleged wrongdoing lies in the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted content and the sale of access to it.