Originally published at: Kemo IPTV, LemoTV, and Major IPTV Resellers Sued by DISH
DISH Network has filed a lawsuit against the unnamed operators behind two major IPTV services – LemoTV and Kemo IPTV. The lawsuit also names a long list of affiliated resellers, some of which may be behind the service you’re using. We’ve listed these IPTV resellers in this article. The complaint, made in a Texas federal…
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Miki
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Well that’s one gone for me. Ooooops.
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Thanks for the referenced article. Sounds like these cable companies might be going after ALL the IPTV services as mentioned, I mean, all of them offer the same structured programming, in fact, some of them look like cookie cutter, same look, sometimes hard to tell who’s who. From Kemo, Lemo and those listed to the ones on the ranking here seem to offer the same type of channels.
What will they do?, ban streaming or just ban the channels that can provide illegal content? Hard to say.
Now, offering money making opportunities to resellers takes it a bit too far for me, I think that might be more harmful to these companies especially since there might be resellers who don’t know how run this business. What I mean is that some resellers do not educate who they sell to in terms of protecting themselves from cyberattacks whether in the form of viruses, identity theft, etc. etc. when using an internet protocol service. They could be streaming illegal content left and right without realizing the consequences as well.
If DISH wins this lawsuit, it will certainly set a precedent for others to go after companies in the battle to eradicate our right to free streaming.
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Avid08
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Wow some of these resellers were making a tidy profit on the Kemo service as it was available for $34 per annum from a certain website….
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teehar
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You know what’s worse is how many services that are rebranded kemo/lemo sellers mentioned here at TP and other forums. I mean how can you tell if your provider is simply reselling kemo/lemo?
Normally can tell by the playlist content and service dns.
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Based on their over the top advertising, it’s a wonder they lasted this long
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Avid08
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Also when they haven’t bothered to curate the playlist with iptveditor or iptvboss and are charging over double or treble the original cost.
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AMD237
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These IPTV services are/were much too visible. If they are easy to find with a quick Google search, authorities and anti-piracy people can find them easily, too. It also is wild how many sub-services were re-selling this. It is the lowest of the low "low hanging fruit " in the IPTV/piracy battle, which is why they were recognized easily and being prosecuted now.
Avid08
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They only seem to ever bust the resellers.
They never find the main operation because I think they are organised and put all the risk on users that buy panels and the stupid ones who openly advertise on the internet and social media.
MarkxG
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Let this be a warning that if you are finding your IPTV service from a Discord, other social media, and yea even here from Troy’s Best IPTV of the month reviews that your supplier might be shut down. As hard as they are to find the ones that have zero advertising, no social media, no website, and are invite only are the truly safe ones
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When one goes down, 5,6,7 + more pop up
Only if I were lucky enough or smart enough to find an unadvertised one. Makes me wonder how those make money if so hard to find?
Avid08
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Some of those best ones are just renamed services by the resellers and are charging double or treble the actual cost.
They take the risk and advertise to double or treble their money.
if you have a private service that doesn’t advertise probably best to keep it to yourself for now…who knows what will happen and not good
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I believe Extreme HD is being used exclusively by a city in Utah as their sole tv provider. I’d like to be a fly on the wall when the city counsel has to deal with this service shutting down. While I agree that it is best for IPTV providers to go low profile, I doubt Dish’s legal actions are going to stop the fundamentals that are driving them out of business. For every service they shut down, 6 or 7 others pop up. The satelite, cable and premium services will continue to bleed subscribers until someone knocks some sense into them that their business and pricing models suck and they need to give their customers better choices at a lower cost.
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The whole cable and satellite industry is on life support right now because of people that is going over to cheaper more affordable means of entertainment. They need to take a lesson from the music industry. Remember the days of Napster and Limewire etc. People was downloading songs illegally to keep from paying the costs of buying CDs and cassettes and such. Now we have Apple Music and Spotify and things like that for a low monthly fee you can get unlimited music wherever and whenever. The TV industry will eventually have to do the same thing if they want to survive. People will continue to move to cheaper IPTV options to get their TV fix and every time one shuts down, 5 more appear in its place. They can sue for millions but it will continue to be a cat and mouse game until they wisen up and lower their ridiculously high prices
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