Court orders Spribe to block access to unauthorized platforms.
The Public Prosecutor's Office of the Federal District and Territories filed a public civil action against Spribe OÜ, an Estonian company responsible for developing Aviator, the popular "airplane game". The lawsuit, filed this Thursday (September 10), seeks R$ 110 million in collective moral damages and points to the availability of the game on betting platforms not authorized to operate in Brazil, even after corrective measures that the company claims to have adopted.
Aviator is one of the most popular games in the Brazilian online betting market . Data released by Spribe itself indicates that the product had around 60 million active players per month in 2025, with a volume of 400 bets per minute and an estimated monthly financial turnover of US$17,4 billion.
the court decision
The 7th Civil Court of Brasília partially granted the preliminary injunction requested by the MPDFT (Public Prosecutor's Office of the Federal District). The judge dismissed the total suspension of the game on all platforms, including those regularly authorized, understanding that the measure would be "excessively burdensome and disproportionate" before the formation of a contradictory process. Instead, the decision imposes a series of obligations on Spribe to be fulfilled within ten days.
The company must submit a technical report identifying authorized operators, aggregators, distributors, and partners linked to Aviator; provide information on domains, integrations, credentials, and APIs related to making the game available; immediately suspend integrations with unauthorized operators in Brazil; implement mechanisms for continuous monitoring, traceability, geo-restriction, and blocking; and preserve contracts, records, logs, and other evidence related to the distribution of the product.
Failure to comply with any of these requirements will subject the company to a daily fine of R$ 100, with an initial limit set at R$ 10 million.
The argument of the MPDFT
According to the judge's assessment, the documents supporting the lawsuit reveal evidence indicating that Spribe acts as the developer, licensor, and owner of the Aviator technology, possessing audit and monitoring mechanisms "capable of identifying the use of the product by unauthorized operators." Despite this, technical reports produced during the investigation pointed to the repeated presence of the game on multiple unauthorized platforms, even after the measures communicated by the company.
The R$110 million claim was calculated by the MPDFT (Public Prosecutor's Office of the Federal District) based on an estimated annual revenue of US$200 million for Spribe. Using an exchange rate of R$5,50 per dollar, the agency arrived at R$1,1 billion and set 10% of that value as a parameter for collective moral damages. If the lawsuit is successful, the Judiciary will determine the final amount, taking into account criteria such as the severity and duration of the conduct, the number of consumers affected, the reach of the game in Brazil, any economic gain for the company, Spribe's financial capacity, the control mechanisms adopted, and the extent of the damages caused.
In addition to compensation, the MPDFT (Public Prosecutor's Office of the Federal District) had requested the suspension of Aviator's operations in Brazil within five days of the company being notified. This request was denied at this time, but the decision expressly reserves the possibility of reassessment after the adversarial process and eventual production of technical evidence.
Partial secrecy regarding the documents
The decision also maintained restricted access to some of the documents that make up the case, including technical reports, digital evidence, intelligence records, contracts, credentials, APIs , logs, and audit trails that reveal investigative methodology or data about Spribe's technological architecture. The remaining documents remain accessible to the parties and their duly authorized attorneys.
What remains unknown is whether, after the adversarial process, a complete suspension of Aviator on authorized platforms will be decreed. The decision itself left this point open, conditioning any broader measure on the production of technical evidence and the exercise of the right to defense by Spribe.
