LaLiga Demands €450 After ISPs Log Subscribers' Visits to Pirate ServersAndy Maxwell, 02 Jul 06:51 PM When news began to break in early March, indic
 | When news began to break in early March, indicating that Spain's most powerful football league had been authorized by a local court to track down people who simply viewed pirate streams, the story made for puzzling reading. Claims in the media, that this related to pirate IPTV subscribers, spread like wildfire. That benefited LaLiga's deterrent messaging campaign but lacked any basis in truth. That prompted a corrective statement by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia. Not only did the Court state that mere viewers would not be targeted when LaLiga obtained alleged pirates' identities from local ISPs, its statement clarified that this wasn't about IPTV at all; it concerned card-sharing, an entirely different type of piracy. "[T]he basis for agreeing to the requested preliminary diligence, can only be carried out against the 'cardsharers' who re-spread the signal and profit from it, and not against mere end users," the statement explained. And that was that, at least until le...Read More |
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