Since the start of the season, the LFP and Vincent Labrune have intensified their fight against piracy. With subscription prices rising, the number of football fans watching matches without paying has exploded in recent years. And that hurts French football. But not only that. Indeed, LaLiga president Javier Tebas also denounced the massive hacking of matches during a conference this Friday.
“If we want to maintain the level of staff in the industry (180,000 jobs for GDP), people will have to pay to watch football. For someone to consume pirated products, a lot of things happen. From the moment one obtains it until it is advertised and reaches the pirated consumer, there is an illegal process. We have several lawsuits with Google for reasons such as money laundering. Google Ads advertises on pirate websites and invoices. There are a lot of actors doing things so that people can hack football and other sports. In Italy it is said that operators or content providers like Google must search and report this content. Google says it’s impossible, that there are more than 10 billion, but they agreed to it. Google is laughing at us. In Arab countries, search engines do not allow access to pornography. It’s easy to avoid it when they want to.”
