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Media Notes: Man Fined £45,000 For Illegal Distribution Of Sky Sports

A man was ordered to pay £45,000 ($62,700) in fines and damages for the "illegal distribution of Sky Sports." Waqas Rasheed shared streams from (the then) Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2. The streams were found on IPTVdonations.com, an illegally-run IPTV subscription service. He claimed to have "inadvertently" created the streams while trying to access Sky content online for free (BROADBAND TV NEWS, 4/26).

Digital football platform Dugout announced an $11.6M investment. The investment was led by Olympique de Marseille Owner Frank McCourt and his brother David McCourt, CEO of Granahan McCourt Capital, alongside other strategic smaller-scale investors. The investment will help the company expand its existing operations as well as its partnership plans to enhance its technology offering and support growth in the MENA region (Dugout). 

Video game loot boxes are "in violation of gambling legislation," according to the Belgium Gaming Commission. Loot boxes give "random rewards" and can be acquired through gameplay or by spending real cash. Those that can be bought for real money "must now be removed from video games in Belgium" (BBC, 4/26).

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