The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) has announced that DISH Network, one of its member companies, has filed a lawsuit against the illegal streaming operations of Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV. The complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, with full coordination and support from IBCAP.
These services are being accused of unauthorized streaming of copyrighted television content, violating the rights of IBCAP member companies. The content in question includes programming from 22 different channels, which was streamed without permission. According to the lawsuit, evidence was gathered by the IBCAP lab, which monitors illegal activity across set-top boxes (STBs) and IPTV platforms.
Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV are also available through various white-label resellers, increasing their reach and making enforcement more difficult. Despite being sent around 100 notices of infringement since February 2021, these services allegedly continued to distribute copyrighted content without authorization.
During the first quarter of 2025, Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV accounted for nearly 30% of all unauthorised streams detected by IBCAP on monitored IPTV and STB platforms making them two of the most active pirate services currently being tracked.
The lawsuit seeks up to $150,000 in statutory damages per work for the 171 registered copyrighted works cited in the case. This could result in damages of more than $25 million. In addition, DISH Network is pursuing:
- Profits gained from the infringement of potentially thousands of unregistered works
- A permanent injunction to shut down Lemo TV, Kemo IPTV, and related operations
- Transfer of domain names used by the illegal services
- Attorney’s fees and legal costs
The lawsuit also requests legal discovery to help identify unnamed individuals and entities behind these services. This legal tactic has proven effective in earlier cases, allowing courts to unmask the operators of similar pirate platforms.
Chris Kuelling, Executive Director of IBCAP, said, “This lawsuit is the latest example of our lab’s ability to identify the pirate services that are significantly infringing our members’ content and stack-rank such services in order to target and remove the worst infringers.
Lemo TV and Kemo IPTV currently account for more than a quarter of the unauthorised streams on STBs and IPTV services monitored by our lab. This level of theft is unacceptable for our members, and we will put a swift stop to it—just as we have successfully done with numerous other pirate services through court-ordered injunctions.”
IBCAP has previously supported similar lawsuits that have resulted in court orders, domain seizures, and the shutdown of major illegal services. Their continued efforts show a strong commitment to protecting the rights of broadcasters and reducing the availability of pirated content worldwide.