“The
whole industry is asleep. She refuses to confront the elephant standing in the room in front of us: piracy. ”
It is in these words that Yousef al-Obaidly, president of beIN Sports, sums up to his teams the situation in which French football finds itself. While the various protagonists are tearing up around the television rights of Ligue 1 since the mirage of Mediapro in October 2020 and the arrival last June of the giant Amazon, piracy could once again emerge as a winner from this chaos.
In France, piracy has become the second largest football broadcaster, behind the Canal + channel and its 5 million subscribers.
Each month, 4 million people watch this sports content illegally, against some 1.5 million three years ago, estimates Hadopi, the independent body responsible for combating piracy on the Internet.
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Streaming sites illegally broadcast L1 or Champions League matches on the internet.
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