This Thursday, Canal + was pleased to retain full TV rights for the European football cups. For several seasons, the group has supported French representatives in their continental games, particularly in the Champions League.
But the encrypted channel must also
confront piracyjust like Ligue 1 +, broadcaster of the French championship. And according to journalist Félix Rouah, this fight is already lost.
“Fighting against football piracy is dead, lamented Félix Rouah in L’Equipe du Soir.
Anyone who knows a little bit about how it works, via VPNs (virtual private networks), sprawling structures… It’s dead for several things. Already, the law of the countries through which it passes, the law of the communities, European law and then the technical ease with which the pirates go 20 times faster than the authorities responsible for fighting against it. »
The fight against IPTV, a “mission impossible”
For Félix Rouah, sport is in line with other sectors such as music or cinema. “What is happening with sport – not just football – broadcast on television is what happened with cinema in the past or more recently with music, continued the journalist. Obviously, the models will evolve. For this, there are two main vectors: the first being the habits of consumers, there is also the will that they decide to put into the product they want to obtain. And that happened for music, for cinema, which changed model, audience and what the audience expects as well. »
“This will change on the model itself. It’s inevitable. I understand that the regulatory authorities and the authorities who market these things say: ‘we are going to fight against it’, because a government which said the opposite would not be heard, but in this case, it is impossible. You have to be aware of it”concluded the columnist of La Chaîne L’Equipe.
