(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 28 - The Special Privacy Protection and Technological Fraud Unit of the Guardia di Finanza has conducted a new investigation to combat audiovisual piracy after recording an increase in the sale of IPTV activities through illegal streaming on the occasion of last day of the Serie A championship and the Conference League final.In addition to the seizure of over 500 Web resources and the related 40 Telegram channels, a tracking system was implemented that made it possible to identify the users of the pirated flows.Anyone who tried to connect to the pirated services was redirected to a special information panel that warned that the site through which the program was being viewed was seized and the connection data traced.The consequent analyzes carried out by the investigators have, at present, made it possible to ascertain the existence of a new management system for IT flows, called "Stream Creed", which appears to derive from the source code of the already known "Xtream Code", a worldwide pirate platform. dismantled by the same Special Unit in 2019. "We renew our full support to the Police Forces daily committed to countering the phenomenon of piracy that annually generates considerable damage to our country system, with particular impact on the media and entertainment industry and on end customers - commented the CEO of Dazn Italia. Stefano Azzi -. Piracy affects the whole world of Ott players, not just Dazn. With the diversification of platforms and channels, the methods of piracy are also changing. Dazn's anti-piracy division and its partners are already working to stop thousands of instances through law enforcement, injunctionsoni and continuous innovation aimed at protecting subscribers ".(HANDLE).CLARIFICATION - ROME;6 JUN 2022 - In relation to the news reported above, taken from an official statement of the Guardia di Finanza released on 28 May last, the lawyer Andrea Nocera, in the name and on behalf of XTream Codes and two of its directors, ruled out , in a note, any offense of XTeam Codes itself in the facts that are the subject of the investigation by the Fiamme Gialle.In relation to the precedents also mentioned in the statement of the Guardia di Finanza, the lawyer Nocera specified that "the order of the Court of the re-examination of Naples (n.702 / 2021 of 3.8.2021), confirmed in the Supreme Court of Cassation (sentence 16536/2022), in acceptance of the requests of this defense, released the assets of my clients, previously subjected to real constraint, maintaining the seizure only on the profits produced by the other suspects in the de quo proceeding, affirming in fact the total extraneousness of the company activity compared to the alleged Neapolitan criminal association ".The same lawyer Nocera later specified that, at his request, the statement of the Guardia di Finanza was removed from the Fiamme Gialle website.