The judge opens the door for LaLiga to sue private clients for piracy. Telecommunications operators must hand over data of users who have connected to illegal servers.
The piracy network accesses the channels that offer football through a legitimate payment card, which is associated with a computer or satellite decoder that is connected to the internet. This information is shared with customers, imitating the original subscriber card, allowing them to access the encrypted signal. Both the network that provides the service and the clients that access it leave their trace through IP addresses, which identify the devices that connect to the Internet.