The fight against pirate IPTV continues its course and the millionaire fines that those behind these services have to pay are increasing.Today we have been able to learn of a case in Canada in which they have asked a US court to declare responsible for 585 million dollars in damages for a man who operated and sold these services.The request has not yet been resolved, but the amount of this possible sentence would be historic.On December 22, 2020, DISH Network, a pay television provider in the United States, together with its technology partner NegaStar, filed a lawsuit with more than 260 attached pieces of evidence against Carlos Rocha, a resident of Canada.This, according to the complaint, was the operator and controller of SolTV and Stream Solutions, pirate IPTV services that offered content from said network in violation of its rights.According to the investigations by DISH and NegaStar, Rocha had a relationship with SET TV, a pirate IPTV service that had already been brought down by DISH previously in a lawsuit that cost the defendants 90 million dollars.Furthermore, he also had connections to Simply-TV, another service that had been sued by DISH.As stated in the lawsuit, Rocha, in addition to operating SolTV and Stream Solutions, also trafficked in pirated IPTV subscriptions for other services such as BimoTV, TVStreamsNow, OneStepTV, IbexTV, MagnumStreams, Prime Tyme TV, Lazer TV Streams, Griff TV, Flix Broadcasts and CantGetEnoughTV.DISH said encrypted messages in its satellite transmissions confirmed that the content offered by the services was its own and that the unlawful conduct constituted massive violations of the Federal Communications Act (FCA).Demanding $10,000 in damages for each FCA violation, with the potential to increase to an additional $100,000, DISH also sought an injunction to end Rocha's business.Last week an agreement was reached in this litigation with a most curious resolution.This week the judgment and court order against Rocha appeared stating that he operated, participated in and/or trafficked in device codes and subscriptions for various IPTV services, including SolTV, SET TV, Simply-TV, BimoTV, TVStreamsNow, OneStepTV , IbexTV, MagnumStreams, Prime Tyme TV, Lazer TV Streams, Griff TV, Flix Streams and CantGetEnoughTV.Trial for sale of pirate IPTVThe defendant agreed to be liable for statutory damages.The motion asks the court for more than $585 million in damages under the FCA and to issue a permanent injunction to prevent any future conduct that may infringe DISH's rights.If the court approves this unprecedented ruling, it will be known in the next few days, but it seems quite likely that Rocha does not have half a billion in cash.The amount seems disproportionate, not only because of Rocha's business volume, but because the entire pirate IPTV market in the United States is valued at one billion dollars (as of 2020).A common feature of DISH's lawsuits against IPTV providers and similar entities is how they keep showing up in subsequent and parallel investigations.The company likes to connect the dots and the lawsuits make it possible.Recidivism with them can be dangerous.