LaLiga bans one of the main services for watching football while broadcasting

The football tv rights They change almost seasonally. More than usual, users are accustomed to renting promotional packages or channels to follow the local competition without a hitch, even if it means making additional expenses each month.

this chapter, Movestar s dazn They are award winning audiovisual operators. At least, on paper, because there are always pirate channels or other ingenious alternatives to watch league And don’t pay anything at all. The last banned channel is Icestreamfamous player flow Open source based on VLC where users can share their content without links.

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La Liga blocks AceStream

Icestream It is an open source multimedia application with a feature-rich player, which allows playback of any video and audio files, including MKV, MP4, AVI, MOV, Ogg, FLAC, TS, M2TS, Wv and AAC, as well as playback of network transmissions being transmitted Via HTTP, RTMP, FTP…

The platform prefers to define itself differently: “Use Icestream To protect the environment from the severe damage caused by the central transmission industry and unicast technologies. “

Made easy to broadcast and picture quality Icestream On one of the favorite channels of those users who are reluctant to pay to watch LaLiga Santander matches. So much so that the app has reached unexpected popularity quotas.

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Block channels every week

LaLiga and Movestar They did not stand idly by and have gone to justice. A recent ruling by Barcelona Commercial Court No. 9 enables them to ban weekly access to domains that facilitate content piracy.

According to the decision, this protection measure is necessary since “many cases of digital piracy that flagrantly affects the exploitation of their rights” were discovered, through the use of “various models of piracy of audiovisual content on the Internet (particularly sports content)”.

The judicially authorized action is called “dynamic blocking” because it will not be applied in a timely manner, but is enforced on a weekly basis with new selections of URLs, domains and IP addresses, without the need to notify the court in advance. In other words, it gives them freedom so that this siege takes place on a weekly and abrupt basis, as in the case of Icestream.

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secondly, Movistar Plus + He won another sentence similar to the previous one, that telecom operators of Internet access in Spain must ban weekly access to domains that facilitate the piracy of audiovisual content on the platform Movistar Plus +. This was agreed by the Honorary Judge of the Commercial Court No. 6 of Barcelona with the aim of “blocking web pages on which intellectual property rights are infringed”.