As of last week, Amazon has started cracking down on “side-loaded” piracy apps – ones that allowed Fire Stick TV users to stream international movies, TV shows, and live sports events without subscribing to the official broadcaster.

It’s worth noting that this is not Amazon’s first rodeo when it comes to blocking piracy-related third-party apps on Fire TV devices.

Earlier this year, it removed several Fire TV apps, but at that time, its objection was primarily related to those apps using resource-monetization services that granted cybercriminals access to users’ devices and residential IPs for potentially malicious activity.

However, in hindsight, it seems that removing those malware-infected apps was indeed just a test run for what the company ultimately had in mind.

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