The fight against piracy continues to hit IPTV hard. This time it was the turn of the pirate IPTV to watch football. Specifically, it has been achieved that, during the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 seasons, one of the major European leagues of this sport can block each of the illegal services that broadcast their football matches. To be more specific, we refer to the Premier League.
The Premier League has secured at least two years of blockades to fight against pirate IPTVs that fraudulently broadcast UK league matches. And all thanks to the court order that the company that is in charge of broadcasting the British league matches, Sky, has managed to obtain.
hard blow to piracy
For two full seasons, both this year (2023/2024) and next year (2024/2025), Sky will be able to seamlessly block each of the pirated IPTV broadcasts to watch Premier League matches. This is because Sky, the company that has the television rights to broadcast this football league, has obtained an order from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom to deal with this type of illegal services that has spread so much in Europe and in everyone.
Pay TV in the United Kingdom already has the court order it needed to deal with pirate IPTVs that were illegally broadcasting Premier League matches. According to the latest report, the main operators in the country will have to execute the blocks that Sky sets. All in order to protect the television rights to football that they bought in their day, as it also seeks to protect the linear channels, including Sky Atlantic.
On the other hand, the British giant was already aware of up to six IPTV services in which its content was broadcast illegally. However, now is when it has been known that fraudulent broadcasts of the Premier League can be blocked. Therefore, the English company will ask the main telephone companies to block it during these two years without any problem.
At the moment, the details of this judicial order that Sky has obtained are not known, although it is probably similar to the one that has been given in other countries, such as Italy, to deal with this type of fraudulent services that skip television rights, especially within this sport.
With this order, Sky and the Premier League will have it easier. And all because they will not need prior authorization from a game to close or block this type of pirate web page or service. They will only have to ask the operator in question in the country to be in charge of blocking their access to users.
Already in its day, the well-known British company obtained this type of permission with which it was able to block soccer matches of the 2019/2020 season. An order that was later extended to the following two seasons. Well, once again, this court order allows the Premier League to block pirated IPTV services for the next two seasons.
