Inproceedings
Cloud Investigations of Illegal IPTV Networks
John Sheppard. Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (TrustCom-18), pp. 1942-1947, 2018.
Contribution Summary
The paper "Cloud Investigations of Illegal IPTV Networks" by John Sheppard examines the use of cloud evidence to investigate illegal IPTV networks, specifically those using Kodi software. It identifies key roles in the Kodi community, including normal users, addon authors, and distributors, and explores the relationships between addons and their authors and distributors. The study uses GraphQL in the GitHub cloud to investigate the networks found among these authors and distributors, providing valuable insights into digital forensic investigations. With the rise of IPTV services and the increasing popularity of Kodi, this research has significant implications for cybersecurity and digital forensics, particularly in the context of piracy and copyright infringement. The paper's findings highlight the importance of cloud-based investigations in combating illegal IPTV networks.
Keywords: Cloud Investigations; IPTV Networks; Kodi Software; Digital Forensics; Cybersecurity; Piracy; Copyright Infringement; GraphQL
Abstract
Kodi software has gained much attention in recent years due to its powerful capabilities for streaming legal and illegal media sources. This has led to numerous court cases and media reports around piracy and copyright infringement. This paper examines some of the most popular Kodi video addons on a Raspberry Pi 3 running Open Source Media Center (OSMC). There are a variety of different roles involved in the Kodi community such as normal users, addon authors and distributors. This paper identifies and defines these key roles. It looks at the relationships between addons and their authors and distributors. It shows how cloud evidence can be used to connect devices to the addon distributors. It further investigates the networks found among these authors and distributors using GraphQL in the GitHub cloud.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{du2018illegaliptv,
author={Sheppard, John},
title="{Cloud Investigations of Illegal IPTV Networks}",
booktitle="{Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (TrustCom-18)}",
year="2018",
month="08",
address={New York, USA},
publisher={IEEE},
pages="1942-1947",
doi={10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2018.00295},
ISSN={2324-9013},
abstract="Kodi software has gained much attention in recent years due to its powerful capabilities for streaming legal and illegal media sources. This has led to numerous court cases and media reports around piracy and copyright infringement. This paper examines some of the most popular Kodi video addons on a Raspberry Pi 3 running Open Source Media Center (OSMC). There are a variety of different roles involved in the Kodi community such as normal users, addon authors and distributors. This paper identifies and defines these key roles. It looks at the relationships between addons and their authors and distributors. It shows how cloud evidence can be used to connect devices to the addon distributors. It further investigates the networks found among these authors and distributors using GraphQL in the GitHub cloud."
}