Cloud Investigations of Illegal IPTV Networks

John Sheppard

doi:10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2018.00295

Cloud Investigations of Illegal IPTV Networks

John Sheppard

Department of Computing and Mathematics

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1942-1947
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781538643877
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2018.00295
Publication status	Published - 05 Sep 2018
Event	17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018 - New York, United States Duration: 31 Jul 2018 → 03 Aug 2018

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Name	Proceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018

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Conference	17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York
Period	31/07/2018 → 03/08/2018

Keywords

Cloud Forensics, Cloud Investigations, Cloud Evidence, GitHub, Streaming, Kodi, Addons, GraphQL, Piracy

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Sheppard, J. (2018). Cloud Investigations of Illegal IPTV Networks. In Proceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018 (pp. 1942-1947). Article 8456163 (Proceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2018.00295

Sheppard, John. / Cloud Investigations of Illegal IPTV Networks. Proceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. pp. 1942-1947 (Proceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018).

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Cloud Investigations of Illegal IPTV Networks. / Sheppard, John.
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Sheppard J. Cloud Investigations of Illegal IPTV Networks. In Proceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2018. p. 1942-1947. 8456163. (Proceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018). doi: 10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2018.00295

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