The beIN SPORTS France channel won its case with the courts by managing to block various pirate sites and addresses that it had identified.
A small step against piracy, but a big step for beIN SPORTS. The television channel, which has been fighting for several years against the illegal distribution of online sports content, won a major victory last Thursday, officially relayed by the broadcaster on Wednesday. The Paris court has indeed rendered an unprecedented decision by blocking several fraudulent addresses and websites.
The super-authority, ARCOM, scores its first points against piracy
The least that can be said is that beIN SPORTS has made perfect use of the new arsenal made available to broadcasters by the new Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority, ARCOM, born of the merger of the CSA and Hadopi.
The latter, now competent in the matter, has enabled the deployment of a new mechanism aimed at combating the illegal distribution of content, which consists in particular of very quickly bringing the rights holders closer to the actors likely to block pirate services.
Because urgency motivated beIN SPORTS. The African Cup of Nations (CAN) is currently broadcast on the antennas of the beIN group, in full and exclusively moreover, which put the broadcaster in the embarrassment when he discovered all the pirate channels which relayed free and without authorization the meetings of the competition.
A landmark decision
The Paris court therefore quickly acceded to the request of beIN SPORTS, for what constitutes the first court decision requesting the blocking of fraudulent addresses and sites, all identified by the channel. The decision, which sets precedent, fully grants ARCOM the power to ask internet service providers to block any site identified from the decision which would broadcast the competition in streaming or IPTV.
Internet service providers have indeed blocked the latter, which are now inaccessible to viewers. Caroline Guenneteau, deputy general secretary of beIN MEDIA GROUP, welcomes a decision that “ concretely record the entry into force of the new legal system aimed at simplifying and accelerating the blocking and inaccessibility of fraudulent sites and/or addresses “.
” The objective now will be to determine, in consultation with all the stakeholders and ARCOM, the methods allowing us to optimize, as of the next few weeks, the deadlines for applying the measures to block the identified sites and any mirror sites. “, she adds. In 2019 alone, the piracy of sports and audiovisual content would have cost broadcasters more than one billion euros.
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Source: beIN SPORTS FRANCE
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