A man has been arrested on suspicion of selling illegal streaming packages which provided access to Sky channels.
Officers from the police intellectual property crime unit (PIPCU) at City of London Police arrested the 38-year-old while executing a search warrant at a home in Wolverhampton early yesterday morning.
He was detained on suspicion of copyright and money laundering offences after he was suspected to have sold illegal streaming packages in bulk for others to sell to the public.
Further search warrants were carried out at four business addresses in Wolverhampton and Coventry, police said, but the man has since been released under investigation.
Officers seized a server, which was used to host the illegal streaming service, at one of the addresses and the service was shut down.
Detective Constable Daryl Fryatt, from PIPCU at City of London Police, said: ‘Illegal streaming is a huge issue for the entertainment and creative industries, and while it may seem like a low-risk, high-reward crime, the …