Vaders is dead. We all agree on that. But, it's extremely strange that none of the major anti-piracy bodies are publicly taking a victory lap. They all do that, all the time. The usual complaint driving these investigations is the Premier League. The league goes after IPTV providers directly sometimes (massive invoice and demands, etc) and much more often by sticking local law enforcement on the provider. The league does the leg work of the investigation and hands the information over to the actual police, which deal with the situation fairly swiftly. So, if that's the case, that's what happened here, why isn't there a blog post on Premierleague.com? No bragging about the takedown? They do that for each major bust. No tweets from police forces, taking credit?
The story involving the ex-admin and snitching and sentence reduction is visibly nonsensical. Vaders people wouldn't be in a position to know what the ex-admin was doing. The story about servers being seized and stuff is also nonsense - Vaders wouldn't know about that in advance. Authorities don't announce their intention to seize your equipment and just leave you at a computer to wipe the unit before they can seize it. That's not how any of this works. Admitting to the event after the fact is almost more absurd than the actual claim. Just giving the authorities a free crime to charge you with.
If Vaders was raided, was served or whatever, that's one thing. They put up a good fight. If they are just feeling the heat and what to get out, that's fine with me personally. If they want to run with the money and fire up a new service in a month or two, that's another thing.
Vaders wasn't Flawless. They weren't Fab. They were by far the largest paid pirate IPTV service. When the end comes for a service like that, it involves people in handcuffs, not an invoice from sports rights-holders and some questionable decision making with destruction of evidence and whatnot.
Bottom line: Vaders should release the legal paperwork that they were provided, if anything involving law enforcement actually occured. If an actual case was brought/a raid occurred/a process server showed up with documents that say 'FA Premier League' at the top, we're going to know about it soon enough. But I doubt any of that happened, because the victory lap would be occurring now. Vaders.tv would be pointing at some 'this domain was seized' page.
Agreed, sounds more like a poorly executed exit scam.