With the aim of ending completely with illegal transmissions and piracy in general, Greece has taken another step in its fight by approving a law in Europe. Now, Not only will OA distributors be persecuted who market these services, but also private userswhich consume this type of content from home, they can receive hard economic sanctions.
Until now, the Greek authorities focused their efforts exclusively on dismantling networks that distributed illegal IPTV. But, after a recent legal reform, the responsibility for the final consumer has been expanded, with fines addressed directly to those users who enjoy or have applications that facilitate the visualization of pirate content.
The war against IPTV piracy will now work differently
The owners of the rights, as well as sports organizations, among which LaLiga Español, chaired by Javier Tebas, are pressing strongly globally to end the IPTV piracy. In recent years we have seen strategies to block access to illegal content, such as mass blocks to services such as Cloudflare, and letter blockages.
All of them have been especially effective because They seek to affect only the concrete IP addresses that offer illegal live parties broadcastswithout harming other users that have nothing to do with these activities. This reduces collateral damage and prevents innocent people from suffering the consequences of these antipiralatry actions.
However, everything could change significantly, especially now that Greece has opened a new front in this fight by approving a law that allows Impose direct fines on any user who consumes pirate content by IPTV. The fines will go from 750 euros to 1,500 euros.
In addition, the scope of this regulation goes beyond mere consumption, since even the possession of software, applications specifically designed to access illegal transmissions or Amazon Fire TV Stick modified will be considered sufficient reason to fine the user.
In other words, if you have an illegal application or software installed on any of your devices, either to watch football, series or movies without paying, The authorities may fine directly without the need for this content to be distributed or marketed. This represents a radical change and should worry if you are a user of these services.
The authorities already have methods to track users through prior investigations to criminal networks. Once these networks are intervened, the personal data provided by customers, such as emails, IP addresses or payment methods, will serve to directly identify those who consume this type of illegal content from their home.
If this Greek strategy is successful, It would be no surprise that other countries, including Spain, decide to imitate it. Especially considering that LaLiga has been doing the impossible for years to definitely end the piracy in sports broadcasts, applying innovative measures to pursue and close illegal platforms.
LaLiga activates a new letter blocking strategy against IPTV
LaLiga will activate a new tactic against piracy. A strategy directly driven by Javier Tebas that will leave behind the blockages of IP addresses to move on to a more selective approach, focused exclusively on the largest audience matches. This mainly includes the Real Madrid meetings, FC Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid, which are usually the most pirated.
The main objective is to reduce the negative impact caused by indiscriminate blockageswhich came to affect legal platforms without any link with illegal retransmissions. Now specific restrictions will be applied, only during the live broadcast of the key matches.
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This new formula aims to be more precise and less aggressive, since the blockages will be applied only at certain times, coinciding with the schedules of the most relevant matches, and on platforms that have already been identified as a source of illegal content.
With this, LaLiga expects to minimize collateral damage and at the same time maintain their pressure on those who distribute retransmissions without authorization.
Although this turn in the strategy seems more reasonable, it is expected to continue generating debate. The use of tools such as IPTV lists or modified devices, such as the Fire TV Stick, remains in the spotlight. And although now the blockages will be more surgical, new conflicts with users or intermediaries that are affected by these more focused measures are not ruled out.
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