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🏴☠️🥊 Sports giants demand immediate blocking of pirates
Major European sports leagues and broadcasters (Premier League, LaLiga, Sky, DAZN) have sent a letter to the European Commission demanding the introduction of mandatory laws to combat real-time content piracy.
Voluntary measures are failing in the face of organized crime.
Key Demands:
🔸Introduce a legislative limit: Illegal live streams must be taken down within a maximum of 30 minutes after notification.
🔸Implement EU-wide “dynamic blocking orders” to instantly combat mirror pirate websites.
🔸Tighten the Know Your Business Customer rule for hosting providers and VPNs to strip pirate IPTV operations of anonymity.
The losses for rights holders are enormous: for example, €2.2 billion per year in Italy. Companies point out that in 2024, 81% of detected illegal streams were never blocked, which proves the ineffectiveness of the current, non-mandatory EU recommendations.
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