In the wake of Hollywood’s 2005 win at the U.S. Supreme Court, the website of file-sharing service Grokster was transformed into a personalized warning.Variations on this theme have since appeared on dozens of platforms, most famously via an MPA campaign that declared “You can click but you can’t hide.” These messages were designed to instill fear and uncertainty but didn’t lead to any notable action against those who viewed them.Currently deployed to Italy’s National Cybersecurity Agency, Berruti references “innovative investigative techniques” supported by “new technological tools.”Technical details are not being made public, but it’s claimed that IPTV users were tracked by “tracing of all connections to pirate sites (IPs) combined, in real-time,” and “cross-referencing telematic information with that derived from the payment mechanisms used.”The police operation in May was codenamed Operazione:Dottor Pezzotto.IPTV Subscribers Must Pay a FineFinding out exactly what techniques the police used in May will take time but at face value seem more suited to terrorists than people looking for cheap streams.The fine amounts are baffling too, especially given the extraordinary effort to track IPTV users down."