In Italy they are also trying to intimidate users who use IPTV being able to watch football. Like he already did Javier Tebas During its time in Spain, the Italian competition is looking for a legal loophole to be able to impose fines on people who use these devices to watch matches. It seems that this proposal does not succeed since in the case of Spain, the Judicial has confirmed that only those who offer this content can be identified and not the end consumer. A few months ago, in Italy, a strict law was already approved, but it does not work and we want to report it directly to users.
A few months ago, it was in Spain when Javier Tebas announced with great fanfare a decision by a Barcelona court in which it would have obliged operators to provide the data of users who consumed football through the IPTV and today it is from Italy that they have launched a campaign against supporters who watch football through this platform which distributes a video signal thanks to broadband connections. As their last law did not work, the transalpine country wants to propose a new rule to impose fines of up to 5,000 euros on supporters who consume pirated football.
In Italy, we want to apply this new law after the agreement between the telecommunications regulator (AGCOM), the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Italian financial police and announced by Luigi De SiervoItalian Thebes. This alliance occurred after the failure of Piracy Shieldone of the flagship measures of the previous rule and that it was a mechanism that allowed copyright holders to quickly report illegal content related to pirated football thanks to a blocking carried out within a few minutes.
All parties are working on a new law which, as is the case in Spaincould make little progress since Justice could slow down legal access to user data. He Judicial in Spain has already clarified that, with regard to pirate football, the people who could be sanctioned would be the card sharerswho are the people responsible for providing pirated football to the population and not to the users themselves.
“An irresponsible initiative which, for the exclusive benefit of the football lobby, tramples on operators, the Authority and the Internet ecosystem.” Said Giovanni Zorzoni, president of the Italian Association of Internet Providers (AIIP), about this bill which also wants to force VPN and DNS services to block pirated content. To do this, they will ask manufacturers to Smart TV who prohibit the installation of VPNs on their devices. Something that seems so complicated.
Tebas and his crusade against the ITPV
In Italy, this bill must be approved soon by Congress and then arrives Javier Tebas continues his crusade to end pirate football in Spain. Last March, the boss of the League issued an order of Commercial Court number 8 of Barcelona which seems to mark a before and after in terms of piracy, since there was talk that operators would be obliged to provide the data of customers who consumed football via IPTV.
After the uproar generated, the High Court of Justice of Catalonia had to present a declaration in which it specified that only the data of the suppliers of pirated football would be requisitioned and not that of the final consumer. “The description of this practice allows us to conclude that these are acts of making available or disseminating, directly or indirectly, content, works or services subject to audiovisual rights. These acts, which form the basis of the agreement on the required prior diligence, can only be accomplished by the card sharers who rebroadcast the signal and benefit from it, and not by simple end users,” he warned in his opinion.
It was another stick for one Javier Tebas this continues in the fight to end pirate football in Spain. “After Malta, we are the country where piracy is most widespread in Europe. This is not a lost war and I am sure it will end. If Google wanted it, piracy would decrease by 80%. In Arab countries there is no pornography, here piracy is a crime, it could also be blocked… but Google doesn’t do that. The intellectual property of the clubs is violated. If they stop defending, the clubs will go to ruin and it will be a catastrophe,” the Spanish football boss said in a recent interview.
