UK-based anti-piracy specialist Friend MTS recently delivered an eye-opening live demonstration of pirate IPTV operations—revealing the simplicity, audacity, and ubiquity of the ecosystem in its ruthless warts-and-all efficiency. While many industry insiders are aware of the pervasive piracy problem, it was palpable that several press and analysts in the room had never before seen such blatant displays of stolen content in action, as questions quickly flooded in. Faultline has previous with piracy demos. When we hosted our anti-piracy economy webinar panel last year, we questioned the anti-piracy community on why they no longer show live demos of pirate services at tradeshows and conferences. These were once commonplace at vendor booths, but have been booted to behind-closed-doors demos to protect information…