La Liga scores major victory as pirated streaming service ordered to pay €31.6 million
The League have made it a point to push against the illegal streaming of football matches in recent years, and have scored a major victory.
The illegal streaming platform has been providing links to La Liga matches since 2014 online, and as reported by ReliefRojadirecta were ordered to pay MediaPro €31.6m in damages and compensation. They were one of the biggest illegal streaming platforms in Spain.
The owner, Igor Seoane, has been living in Malta in recent years, but was brought to justice last week. That said, the court declared that it was Rojadirecta responsible for the costs, as was Seoane himself, which was celebrated by the president of the League Javier Tebas.
They fall and those who fall will be big fish! Google, Cloudfare, among others … also benefit from this theft.https://t.co/OEaKx6Tuy2
— Javier Tebas Medrano (@Tebasjavier) December 20, 2024
“They fall, and those who fall, and they will be big fish. Google, Cloudfare, among others… They also make money from this theft. he tweeted.
Tebas has said in the past that he devotes more than half of his time to fighting piracy, and has lobbied for law changes around the world to fight piracy. The criticism against him is centered on the fact that watching La Liga in Spain is at least twice as expensive as in Italy, Germany or France, despite Spain having the lowest average income.
