LaLiga president Javier Tebas condemned this Thursday: Increase in TV football piracy in Spain. A phenomenon that worries Spanish football and for which the leader demands a new legal development that will make it possible to combat it more effectively in Spain.
“Kantar Media viewers [medidor de audiencias televisivas] They tell us our viewership is increasing, but they also resent it pay television subscriptions. “How come more people see us and we have fewer subscribers?” Tebas said at Europa Press’ breakfast titled ‘Piracy in sporting events: a problem for everyone’. said.
The LaLiga president explained that Kantar provides attendance data depending on the contracted operator. According to current data, 14% of football viewers do this without subscribing to platforms with rights (Movistar, Orange and Dazn). This percentage has increased by four points over the last three seasons, a “very high” figure.
Anti-piracy technology
Tebas argued: LaLiga has the best technology is committed to combating piracy and to do so to the extent of the possibilities offered by the legal framework. However, he believes this is insufficient and encourages the Government and other political groups to improve. a new law Facilitating and accelerating the fight against illegal broadcasting of sports and other content such as TV series and movies.
“We send 500 IPs every Thursday and the court issues an injunction so that ‘telcos’ cannot connect to them. But this is too little, There are about 46,000 of them and they grow like mushrooms.. We demand that this be transferred to the administrative world and that a ‘reliable whistleblower’ be appointed in line with the recommendation of the Turkish Armed Forces board of directors. European Union“By making it a law, as in Italy,” he developed.
Tebas refers to the European organization’s proposal to regulate permitting mechanisms for different countries. Swift action against IPs illegally offering television signals. Currently LaLiga and the rest of the affected organizations rely mainly on commercial decisions to combat this phenomenon: “We have the technology, but we need that final step to put an end to piracy.”
Five million downloads
“We check the Google Play and Apple Store applications that offer free football viewing. First five days of LaLigaThey are registered on Android These pirated apps have been downloaded nearly five million times worldwide, 900,000 of them in Spain. At Apple, there are more than a million at the European level, and we estimate that around 300,000 correspond to Spain,” added the LaLiga president.
Another part of the problem, as Tebas points out, is this: “45% of these apps are still in use one year after removal [de las tiendas de Android y Apple]“When the hacker downloads it, it is already there and can continue to use it,” he added.