Sky Ireland has fired off cease and desist letters to 200 Irish IPTV subscribers, marking the first wave of enforcement built on payment records pulled from Revolut.

The letters went out this week from Sky’s Legal Litigation and Anti-Piracy Division. Recipients are scattered across Wexford, Carlow, Clare, Cork, Dublin, and Galway, with Wexford accounting for the largest share. They have 14 days to comply.

How Sky Got the Names of IPTV Subscribers

The customer list traces back to “IPTV is Easy,” an illegal service run by David Dunbar that shut down last August after he settled with Sky for €480,000.

Back in March, an Irish court ordered Revolut to hand over identifying data for 304 subscribers who paid Dunbar through the app. For background on that ruling, see our earlier coverage of Sky’s Irish court order to expose IPTV subscribers.

Sky’s broader strategy of mining personal financial data has been building for months. We covered the playbook in Sky’s push to use personal data against IPTV users.

What the Legal Letters Demand

Each recipient is told to “immediately and permanently disable” any active IPTV subscription and sign a binding settlement promising they won’t subscribe again.

Sky is not asking for cash, which separates this campaign from harsher pay-up schemes seen in Italy and France. The letters do warn that the conduct “may also involve criminal offences.”

Co-rightsholders Clubber TV, LOITV, GAA+, and Premier Sports are named alongside Sky on the notices. Subscribers who sign within the deadline are promised they won’t be publicly named.

Final Thoughts from Troy

Ironically, an estimated 400,000 Irish households still run illegal IPTV boxes, so 200 letters barely scratches the surface.

Sky is clearly betting that fear, not damages, does the heavy lifting here, and Revolut customers paying for anything sensitive should take note of how fast that data moved once a judge signed off.

Regardless, we only suggest using live TV services that are 100% legal and verified to avoid any potential issues.

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For more details on this story, refer to Sky’s cease and desist letter (PDF) and the original report from the Irish Independent.

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