"The fight against piracy also lands on the Google Store. It's only a very first beginning, but it is truly significant that in these hours Google, on a global level, has removed the pirate app Live Football TV HD, an illegal streaming platform, from its store downloaded by over half a million users and used to watch an infinite number of sporting events, including obviously the Italian football championship".
Agcom commissioner Massimiliano Capitanio made this known on Linkedin.
"This result is the fruit of the synergies implemented by Parliament, Agcom, rights holders, telephone companies and Internet Service providers to eradicate a phenomenon that causes Italy to lose 1.7 billion every year and over 10,000 jobs - underlines the Agcom commissioner -. Thousands of users still do not know today that watching a match illegally and clandestinely is a crime and entails a fine that can reach up to 5000 euros. A fine that can be imposed, in fact, on all users who use applications to illegally watch football matches and other copyrighted sporting events."
"With the removal of this application, which also brought with it a significant load of advertising, Google demonstrates that it is collaborating in the fight against piracy in the context of law 93/2023, which requires search engines to delist pirated content and 'all the technical measures useful to hinder the visibility of illicit content' - continues Capitanio - It is certainly a positive sign. This action by Google comes alongside the work carried out by the Piracy Shield platform which, in 24 days, disabled 1510 pirated IPs and around 2000 FQDN inhibiting illegal viewing of sporting events by hundreds of thousands of users.
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