Brazil court orders Spribe to block Aviator access on unauthorized platforms

A court in Brasília has ordered Spribe OÜ, the Estonia-based developer of Aviator, to identify and cut off the game’s distribution through operators not authorized in Brazil. For PSPs and high-risk operators, the practical message is simple: if a product is showing up on gray-market platforms after notice, the paper trail starts to matter fast.

1. The Ministério Público do Distrito Federal e Territórios (MPDFT) filed a civil action against Spribe OÜ on Thursday (10/9), seeking R$ 110 million in collective moral damages. The complaint says Aviator was made available on betting platforms not authorized to operate in Brazil, even after corrective measures Spribe says it had already taken.
2. Aviator is one of the most widely accessed games in Brazil’s online betting market. According to figures released by Spribe itself, the product had about 60 million monthly active players in 2025, processed 400,000 bets per minute, and generated an estimated monthly turnover of US$ 17.4 billion.
3. The 7th Civil Court of Brasília granted the MPDFT’s preliminary request only in part. The judge rejected a total suspension of the game across all platforms, including duly authorized ones, calling that measure “excessively burdensome and disproportionate” before the defense had been heard. Instead, Spribe has ten days to comply with a set of operational orders.
4. Those orders require Spribe to submit a technical report identifying authorized operators, aggregators, distributors, and partners linked to Aviator; disclose the domains, integrations, credentials, and APIs used to make the game available; immediately suspend integrations with unauthorized operators in Brazil; implement continuous monitoring, traceability, geofencing, and blocking mechanisms; and preserve contracts, records, logs, and other evidence tied to product distribution.
5. Any breach of those obligations triggers a daily fine of R$ 100,000, capped initially at R$ 10 million. The MPDFT based its R$ 110 million claim on an estimated annual revenue of US$ 200 million for Spribe, converted using an exchange rate of R$ 5.50 to the dollar and then reduced to 10% as the benchmark for collective moral damages.

The court also accepted the MPDFT’s view that Spribe acts not just as the game developer, but as licensor and technology owner, with audit and monitoring tools capable of identifying unauthorized use. The key issue for the market is not whether a game is popular — Aviator clearly is — but whether the distribution chain can prove where it is being offered, through whom, and under what authorization.