The fight against pirate IPTV seems to give no respite.Many different entities around the world are continually trying to shut down these pirate services, and while they are successful on numerous occasions, it seems that the problem is only scratching the surface.The latest solution put on the table by the Hungarian Communications Association (or MKSZ) has been to combat piracy by using DDoS attacks against the services that give access to this illegal content.We tell you more about this curious initiative.These platforms that broadcast pirated content are generally prepared for domain seizures and similar interference, such as IP address and DNS blocking.However, keep in mind that these services use regular domains, IP addresses, websites, servers, and cloud services, so a DDoS attack would be extremely annoying for the users of these services.The Hungarian group MKSZ claims to have reported more than 100 illegal dealers in recent years.However, it seems that investigations into all these pirate IPTV services seem to be very slow, which means that most of them are still working today.In fact, since 2018 only one case related to these services has been closed, which ended with a guilty verdict and compensation for damages.For this very reason, this Hungarian communications association is starting a round table with all interested parties such as legislators, copyright holders, neighboring rights holders, Internet providers and broadcasters to discuss whether it is possible to launch these DDoS attacks against pirate IPTV providers legally, since obviously these attacks are illegal under normal conditions.In case you don't know what they are, DDoS attacks take advantage of the capacity limits of the infrastructure to send a large number of requests to the attacked web resource (in this case, pirated IPTV) in order to exceed this capacity to handle so many requests. .What causes this type of attack is to prevent the attacked services from working correctly, even causing service outages.The proposal of the Hungarian Association of Communications states the following:"In the interest of legal validity and international transparency, RIPE, on the initiative of the Hungarian Communications Authority, must designate a certain range of IPv4/IPv6 addresses for use by legal and registered DDoS attacks and make it publicly available.""The authority should designate an appropriate professional organization, which would be entitled, subject to the necessary level of official supervision and control, after a preliminary expert investigation based on a report of the interested parties, with the appropriate legal authorization, against the IP addresses illegal service providers launched from the authorized DDoS address range for a legitimate DDoS attack.”The plan of this association is to increase the pressure as much as possible against these IPTV services as much as possible, even if they change their IP address.In the event that this occurs, the IP change will take a significant time to occur, so this time can be used to investigate and follow the service to your new IP.Keep in mind that we are talking about illegal cyberattacks, which would be legal only and exclusively in this area.The problem is that DDoS attacks would directly harm service viewers, something that this association is undoubtedly looking for.It does not seem very likely that the MKSZ and its associates will receive special permission to carry out these attacks, but if so, it would set a precedent that could eventually be applied in other parts of the world.