Mass blockages ordered by LaLiga only represent a part of the crusade of the organization led by Javier Tebas against the piracy of football, which has never hidden its true objective: Users of illegal servicesthat until now they had remained protected by law. And last year, he won a historical victory that allowed him to start the ambitious project to identify and persecute users.
It was more than a year ago, when a seemingly harmless decision of the Commercial Court number 8 of Barcelona caused an authentic earthquake and the fear that millions of Spaniards were going to receive a fine Just to visit a page that offers pirate content.
The judge authorized the identification of the Users who had accessed IP addresses of ‘Cardsharing’used to share the legally obtained signal; In this way, users who do not pay directly to LaLiga or licensed services can see free football or a small price. The operators were forced to deliver the personal data of the users of these ‘Cardsharing’ services, including the name and surnames, the postal address of the line installation and billing, and even the DNI.
Using the data you had obtained from the operators, LaLiga obtained all the information you needed to send letters in which I requested the payment of 450 euros to these people “for damages”at the risk of being sued if they refused to do so. Now, we finally know what the exact role of these operators was.
As he has revealed BandanchaDigi, Orange and Vodafone asked the judge if they should reveal the identity of the end users of these pirate services; This shows that the operators realized that the original order did not differentiate between end users and those responsible for services. Initially, it was thought that this was necessary because it was not known who were responsible; An analysis of the data could reveal this and allow the legal persecution of the creators of these services, which are the ones that obtain profit.
But in practice, the original car allowed LaLiga to obtain the data of the end users, and the operators seemed to be aware of what this could suppose. In fact, Digi presented a letter in which he opposed To present this personal information.
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Although the operators withdrew these clarification requests, it is evident that the judge realized what had happened; subsequently issued a new car in which clarified that the objective of authorization was not the end usersbut those responsible for these services.
But it was too late; Pandora’s box had opened, and it was already impossible to close it. LaLiga confirmed that His true objective were always the end users of the pirate services, in addition to those responsible, under the pretext that they were “disappointing the quota of the TV packages” that offer legal access to football in Spain. And since then, LaLiga has focused on obtaining similar permits to get the data of pirate users; Last December, for example, it was learned that the organization obtained permission to identify all IP addresses that access the Acstream service, used to reproduce IPTV lists.
