Javier Tebas keep up the good work against piracy and now he has indicted three major global companies such as Google, Apple and Amazonwhich he accuses of complicity in piracy. The president of the League focused his criticism on these companies which, according to Tebas, do not contribute to the fight against illegal content.
“Let’s say that Google He steals from us because he is an accomplice“We will say that Apple steals from us because it is an accomplice, we will say that if Amazon does not collaborate, it steals from us because it is an accomplice,” commented Javier Tebas in the Thinking Football Summita conference organized by the Portuguese league in Port.
The League president explained on the issue of piracy that “many owners do not have a clear conscience because they do not speak well” and focused his efforts on attacking Google, Apple and Amazon, among others, which he directly accuses of complicity in piracy: “Technologically, these large companies can solve (the problem of piracy), but they don’t want“.
Tebas, from Portugal, explained that “we are in a time where if we do not know how to properly fight or eliminate piracy, we are not going to grow up“and supported this idea” because the one who paid us for our audiovisual rights has fewer subscribers because people watch football via a website or an IP.”
Then, Javier Tebas addressed directly the heads of Google, Apple and Amazon, three of the largest companies in the world, and designated them as part of the “problem”, in addition to calling them “accomplices”. “If Google wanted to, it would stop 90% of piracy”Thebes continued.
“Google, especially Google, is hurting us with this audiovisual theft they are doing to us”supported the president of the League, very critical especially of the American multinational. In addition, Tebas drew a very clear conclusion in a kind of threat against these companies: “Either we clearly confront all the actors involved in piracy, or we are not going to solve it.”
Javier Tebas’ campaign against piracy
“It’s a disaster for other competitions. “Is this what we want for the football ecosystem?” Javier Tebas continued at the conference in Porto, focusing his efforts on the fight against piracy.
It is worth remembering that this is one of Javier Tebas’ main battles, the fight against piracy, and that great efforts – for logical reasons – have sometimes led the president of the League to lash out. For example, he once compared football piracy to Googling “cocaine” and “child sex”.
“If you go to Google and type ‘I want to buy cocaine’ or ‘Sex with children’, nothing comes up. But if you put ‘free football sport’, it comes up,” Tebas said at an event in Miami. “Some are more serious crimes, but with others, like this one, which is stealing, you don’t do the same thing,” the president of the Spanish League said a few months ago.
