DECISION TO FIGHT AGAINST PIRACY
Fines for users? Measures against piracy in Spain will be intensified
'MARCA' has revealed that the Commercial Court number 8 of Barcelona, in an order in a preliminary procedure, has begun the path to punish users who watch football illegally
One of the big fights of the Spanish football has been the piracy. The number of users that see the parties, in the different competitions, through platforms or apps illegal increases annually in front of the high price of the official services. The big aim is to delete completely this 'problem' and the Court of the Mercantile number 8 of Barcelona has given the first step with a car in a preliminary diligence.
As it has informed the newspaper 'MARK' this Thursday, has taken a key decision to advance in the fight that keep the authorities of LaLiga against the piracy, put up to now only could act against of the establishments, companies or restaurants that transmit football of illegal way. Now, the consequences could be directly for the person that sees pirate football in his domicile.
They will be able to be fined the users that see football of pirate way?
Beginning with the fact that it is simply a car that can resort and whose feasibility is complicated by a lot of factors, has established that the operators (Vodafone, Orange, MásMovil, Digi and Telefónica) would have to inform to LaLiga the following data of the people that see pirate parties: direction IP assigned to the user, name and surname of the title of the one who hire the service, his postal address and document of identification.
The informations have revolutionised the social networks and to the public in general. It does not be necessary to overlook that, as it revealed Javier Thebes in September of the past year, "have deleted 58 applications of Android, that had had 4 million downloads all over the world, 800.000 in Spain that issue contained free in Spain of football, and all type of sportive events. In the surroundings Apple have produced one million downloads, of which some 300.000 have been in Spain".
The 'beginning' of the measures against the piracy
LaLiga Carries a lot of years trying battle against the piracy, but is only the beginning. And it is that, although it is a fundamental step, does not treat of the High court and, in such a case, would share the data of IP and ports. it is endorsing Share the IP, but no that it can fine like such to the users. It does not be necessary to subtract him importance to the fact that LaLiga is not an administrative authority neither judicial to demand confidential data to Vodafone, Orange, MásMovil, Digi and Telefónica.
