Watching football in Spain is a luxury which is not exactly within everyone’s reach. The high prices, and the exclusivity of certain operators has caused thousands of users to bet on Illegal alternatives such as pirate IPTV services or the use of CCCAM or Cardsharing. Although it seems that watching football by satellite is over.
Or this is what emerges after the torrent of outages suffered by customers of this type of pirate service and who wanted to see the Champions PSG-Real Madrid duel. The truth is the use of CCCAM (Client Card Conditional Module) was one of the best alternatives to pirated IPTV by offering great signal stability.
Roughly, This protocol decodes satellite signals through algorithms that allow, through pirate decoders, to see the signal of services such as Movistar+ as if you were a satellite client of the blue operator. As you may have guessed, it is a more complex system than a pirate IPTV service as you need to install an antenna and have a pirate deco, but its great performance made many bet on this way of watching football for free (paying a very cheap initial price) . But, you only have to take a look at Twitter to see that this bargain is about to end.
It is impossible to watch football via CCCAM
As you can see, Thousands of users have been complaining for days that it is impossible to watch football matches through CCCAM.
Man, how difficult it is to watch football without being robbed, I buy a cccam and it disconnects all the time, I buy an iptv and it doesn’t even open, finally put on a Rojadirecta
– Pablo (@_NuceIar) February 15, 2022
Yesterday one of the most important Champions League matches of the year was played, the duel between PSG and Real Madrid. Y thousands of CCCAM platform customers could not see it due to constant signal drops. And that if they could connect…
The CCCam thing is an abuse… they are bursting them…
– Borja Mt (@Borja_Mt) February 15, 2022
Of course, the problem did not start yesterday, but during the past weekend the constant cuts began, preventing the signal from flowing normally.
The cccams are coming to an end, do not spend money on others. Because they will also be cut.
— CHEȘȻØ.® (@ChescoRs) February 13, 2022
Why is my CCCAM not working?
Although it is true that Movistar has achieved a historic victory by being able to immediately block domains to cut pirated broadcasts, it has nothing to do with what is happening with CCCAM. The authorization they have obtained allows them to weekly block web domains related to pirate IPTV or Cardsharing, but in this case we are talking about DDOS or brute force attacks to bring down the Chinese servers that allowed see Movistar Plus+ pirate through CCAM.
There are users who claim that using old decoders the CCCAM signal continues to work normally, but others indicate that this trick has not worked for them. But, the only thing that is clear is that, if this harassment and demolition continues, the days of using this alternative to watch football in Spain without having to go through Movistar Plus+ are numbered.
At the moment users are using pirate IPTV services It seems that they continue to function with average normality. But it should be remembered that LaLiga is starting to use the best tools to fight piracy, so this option could disappear sooner rather than later.
In the case of football we have a problem similar to that of music piracy at the time. People prefer to pay to pirate, and Spotify was the first example that this is a reality. Not to mention streaming content platforms such as Netflix, HBO Max or Disney+ that have also helped to reduce piracy significantly.
With football, or sport in general, the same thing happens. In Spain prices are skyrocketing, and it seems that they will go even higher. We see a clear example in DAZN, which has raised rates in Italy and Germany to almost 30 euros per month. And it is most likely that this price increase will reach Spain when the next LaLiga season starts.
The PSG vs Real Madrid match could be the beginning, since it was a coordinated attack right at the start of the match, so everything indicates that the attackers (the identity is not known) were spying on hundreds of IPTV and CCCAM servers to do DDOS attacks when the game started to cause a massive crash and make it impossible to connect, so it is clear that the alternatives to watch football at a reasonable price are going to end sooner than we thought…
Due to yesterday’s events and previous actions with the intention of protecting the intellectual property of these services it is very likely that it will be increasingly difficult for those who make use of this type of piracy to access the contentso that they have no choice but to opt for the lawful or legal solutions of contracting the service.
