The big problem with pirate IPTV is that it is really difficult to root them out.Generally, when one is taken down and users are banned from it, it looks for ways to come back to life, either by using another domain or even a new name.However, thanks to a fairly sophisticated tool, it is possible to know much more about a specific IPTV in order to root it out.This tool or set of tools is called OSINT (Open Source INTelligence).It is useless for the authorities to close a pirate IPTV if it reappears at the same time in another form.Thanks to this type of tool, it is possible to detect the ramifications that a pirate IPTV may have, in order to detect its origin or even learn more about those responsible.Explained quickly and simply, what this technology does is collect information obtained from search engines, process it and combine it.By doing this, a great deal of information about a target can be obtained, although it is admittedly not as effective against those targets who have their data more protected.Using the tools provided by OSINT for pirate IPTV, it is possible to collect all kinds of information about the operator of a pirate website, such as the IP address, an email address or the domain name and, from there, continue «pulling of the thread» until even being able to find personal information about the people responsible for that IPTV pirate in question is working.An example of how this technology works can be seen with the closure of Ulango.tv, an IPTV solution that offered thousands of channels through an application.Using only the domain name of the site and OSINT, it was possible to obtain information about the company that hosted the server and its IP address.Through this information and using OSINT it was possible to find a Twitter address that was linked to this site.With that Twitter address and a service known as Hunter.io, he found an email account linked to that Twitter account, and so on until he finally closed the service completely.Another research example, also contributed by Torrentfreak, of how this OSINT toolkit works is based on a pirate IPTV that is still in operation, so it is not named.For this, in the same way as the previous one, the domain name of the service was used to discover the identity of the person who owns this domain.Thanks to this name, it was possible to do a reverse search to discover all the domains that were registered with the same name.These steps alone resulted in a name, an email address, a possible physical address, and 10 additional domains, which is truly impressive.Interestingly, the next step to find more information was to use a normal Google search, which found the site's Google Analytics ID, and doing another reverse search found other sites that had the same ID, so they were connected to it.This set of tools seems to be the most useful when it comes to hunting IPTV pirates, not only because of the great results they give, but also because of how easy it is to find related information from data that everyone can obtain. .It remains to be seen if OSINT really serves to root out more IPTV pirates.