Whenever he has a camera in front of him, the president of the Professional Football League, Javier Tebastake advantage to charge against IPTV lists and football piracydemanding laws that force the Internet to change, only to protect a limited number of companies, such as soccer leagues.
Javier Tebas participated today in the Social Football Summit, a series of conferences on football that are held every year in Rome (Italy).
In an interview for the media SkyToday, Tebas has once again criticized pirated IPTV lists, football piracy and free football, praising the Italian anti-piracy law that has just been approved.
The brutal Italian law against pirate football
Javier Tebas has commented on Sky that “Italy has the best law on piracy, I wish it had it in Spain. When I talk about this topic I do nothing more than present Italian legislation as a reference model.”
And what is that Italian law against pirate IPTV that the president of the Spanish Football League so admires?
Last month the Italian Senate approved the new Anti-Piracy Law, which basically turns ISPs into police officers who must monitor all the traffic that circulates through their servers.
This new Italian decree forces VPN and DNS services, regardless of their location, to block content marked as pirated by rights holders. This further expands the reach of Piracy Shield, which until now only affected Italian ISPs.
Piracy Shield has given a large number of false positives, and has caused some VPN services to leave Italy.
The new Italian Law also ends limits on the number of domains and IP addresses that ISPs must block.
Finally, it forces service providers to report criminal activities of which they are awareand failure to comply could result in penalties of up to one year in prison.
As we see, it basically turns ISPs into the internet policethey must monitor everything their clients do, and report to the real police if they see any criminal behavior.
As is logical, Italian ISPs are not happy about the new law. This is what Giovanni Zorzoni, president of the Italian Association of Internet Providers (AIIP), said: “An irresponsible initiative that, for the exclusive benefit of the football lobby, tramples on the operators, the Authority and the Internet ecosystem.”
Professional leagues have the right to protect their intellectual property against piracy, that is something that anyone who has a sense of ethics and defends legality understands and supports.
But many criticize that, for the benefits of a few, a large amount of problems, expenses, and harassment of privacy are generatedboth for ISPs and for the millions of Internet users who do not pirate football. Or they don’t even have interest in this sport.
Javier Tebas has praised the anti-piracy law approved in Italiaas a model to end pirated IPTV, and free football. Will it end up being cloned in Spain?
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Tags: Laws, Sports, IPTV