Ligue 1: IPTV thwarted during the OM-PSG Ligue 1 match
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DAZN is a subscription video streaming platform specializing in sports. Available in several countries around the world, it is arriving in France in 2020 with a specialization in Boxing.
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L'IPTV has clearly found its audience during this 2024-2025 season. Although the practice was already common before, the high prices employed by DAZN to broadcast Ligue 1 have not helped matters, thus increasing this practice to enjoy the competition at a lower cost. It has also become so democratized that ARCOM blocked a record number of platforms during the OM-PSG match on October 27, 2024.
Challenges has indeed shared the details of this evening, where Pauline Combredet Blassel, director of ARCOM, announces the good take of this evening: “We have never blocked so many”. Precisely 342 rebroadcast platforms were blocked until before the start of the meeting. An impressive number when we know that 866 services have been blocked since the launch of the season last August.
By operating some time before kick-off, ARCOM emphasizes having taken the pirates by surprise: “If we block too early, this would have allowed the renewal of domain names,” explained an employee to Challenges. The punch attack was so effective that already 268 illegal broadcasters had been put out of action thirty minutes before the start of the match.
For your information, an IPTV service is generally blocked in around fifteen minutes. This includes sending the request to the relevant authorities, forwarding it to the Internet Service Providers (ISPs), who then take the time to carry out the blocking.
This request is also validated in 95% of cases. “Sometimes the agent's findings do not confirm piracy, or the referral to broadcasters is inadmissible,” explains one of the lawyers handling these requests.
