Lawsuit Filed for $25 Million: IBCAP vs. Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV
Suing the Pirates: IBCAP Takes Down Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV
Last month, the International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) served the operators of Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV with a major blow, filing a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
The streaming service, available through numerous resellers under white-label brands, has been accused of violating IBCAP member copyright rights by illicitly broadcasting copyrighted TV programs from 22 different channels [1][2].
IBCAP member Dish Network lodged the complaint, asserting that despite sending over 100 infringement notices to Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV since February 2021, the unauthorized broadcasts continued [1][2]. These pirate streams made up almost 30% of all unauthorized STB and IPTV broadcasts monitored by the IBCAP lab in the first quarter of 2025 [1][2].
The complaint seeks fines of up to $150,000 per infringed work, amounting to potentially over $25 million. It also demands profits arising from the infringement of unregistered works, a court order banning the service and related parties from operating or aiding infringement, the transfer of domain names used by the service, and payment for legal fees and costs [1][2].
Furthermore, the complaint requests discovery on various entities implicated in the case, another tactic IBCAP has used successfully in previous cases to expose the operators behind unlawful streaming services.
According to Chris Kuelling, executive director of IBCAP, "This lawsuit demonstrates our lab's ability to identify and pinpoint the streaming services that are causing massive copyright infringement and rank them to target and eliminate the most egregious violators" [1].
Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV's recurrent streams equate to more than a quarter of pirate broadcasts on STB and IPTV services monitored by our lab. This degree of theft is intolerable for our members, assures Kuelling, "and we will act promptly to cease it-just as we have effectively done in multiple other instances through court-issued injunctions" [1].
The lawsuit, coordinated by IBCAP and brought forward by IBCAP member Dish Network, relies entirely on evidence gathered and provided by the IBCAP lab [1].
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- The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) used evidence from their lab to file a lawsuit against Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV, accusing them of streaming copyrighted TV content illegally.
- The lawsuit, coordinated by IBCAP and brought forward by IBCAP member Dish Network, seeks fines of up to $150,000 per infringed work, which could total over $25 million.
- The streaming services, available through various resellers, were said to have made up almost 30% of all unauthorized STB and IPTV broadcasts monitored by the IBCAP lab in the first quarter of 2025.
- Chris Kuelling, executive director of IBCAP, stated that this lawsuit demonstrates their lab's ability to identify and eliminate the most egregious violators of copyrighted content in the streaming industry.
- Kemo IPTV's and Lemo TV's recurrent streams equate to more than a quarter of pirate broadcasts on STB and IPTV services monitored by our lab, a degree of theft that is intolerable for IBCAP members.
