La Liga has decided to go offensive against its greatest enemy, reveals ASwith a particularly ambitious objective: to reduce hacking by 50 % in Spain and Latin America in the short term. The stake is colossal. According to the organization, losses linked to the illegal broadcast of its matches would oscillate between 600 and 700 million euros per season, the equivalent of TV rights collected by twelve Liga clubs. For stables like the Rayo Vallecano, which depends at 86 % of this audiovisual income, the threat is existential. Globally, up to 80 % of spectators in Asia would watch the matches illegally, a figure that falls 40 % in Spain, but remains alarming.
To cope, La Liga relies on a real ” warship “, Where nearly 50 specialists track between 2,000 and 3,000 illegal IPs per game. Javier Tebas, president of La Liga, is personally involved, going so far as to infiltrate Telegram groups and test pirate applications himself. The fight is also judicial, with procedures initiated against accommodation giants like Cloudflare, accused of protecting illegal broadcasters. La Liga claims more reactive cooperation and European legislation, while carrying out a deterrent campaign with end users, sometimes ordered to pay a fine of 450 euros. A long -term war, in which the economic future of many clubs is directly engaged.
