Pirate IPTV App LiveNetTV Shut Down After Turkish Police Raid, Operators Settle With ACE
Popular pirate IPTV application LiveNetTV has been permanently shut down after operating for approximately a decade. The closure followed a police search and seizure operation in Istanbul and a subsequent settlement between its two Turkey based operators and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, ACE.
LiveNetTV was a free, advertising supported Android application providing unauthorized access to hundreds of television channels from dozens of countries. It was particularly popular on Android devices and Amazon Fire TV sticks. Despite previous technical measures by Amazon designed to prevent pirate applications from running on Fire TV devices, LiveNetTV developers repeatedly released updated versions capable of bypassing those restrictions.
The service unexpectedly stopped working in late February 2026. Although the application itself continued to open and display channel thumbnails, its streams were no longer functional. ACE has now revealed that the shutdown followed a search and seizure operation conducted by Turkish police and a court appointed expert. The operation resulted from a criminal complaint filed with Istanbul prosecutors by companies belonging to the Motion Picture Association.
Importantly, police and ACE did not technically shut down LiveNetTV themselves. According to ACE, the two operators voluntarily stopped operating the service after the February raid and before settlement negotiations began. The operators, identified only as A.B. and R.B., subsequently reached a settlement with ACE in late June.
As part of the settlement, the operators issued a public statement acknowledging the consequences of their activities. They said the operation had originally been intended as a way to make money online but eventually grew beyond what they anticipated, adding that the financial benefits were not worth the consequences they ultimately faced.
The settlement also resulted in ten LiveNetTV related domains being transferred to the Motion Picture Association, which manages ACE. These domains, including livenettv.net, livenettv.info, livenettv.pro and livenettv.tv, were transferred between June and September 2026. They now redirect visitors to ACE’s Watch Legally initiative rather than distributing the LiveNetTV application.
At its peak, the transferred websites attracted approximately 2.4 million visits annually. ACE emphasized that this figure represents only traffic to the websites and does not include people using the application itself, meaning LiveNetTV’s actual audience was likely substantially larger.
ACE did not disclose whether the settlement included financial compensation. Nevertheless, the case demonstrates an anti piracy strategy combining criminal complaints, police searches, legal settlements, service shutdowns and domain transfers to permanently disrupt established pirate IPTV operations.
