Piracy: "The crucial element is the cooperation of ISPs" (Mathieu Moreuil, Premier League)

"The crucial element in the fight against piracy is the cooperation of internet service providers (ISPs). The advantage we have in the United Kingdom is that the two main ISPs (Sky and BT) are the holders of the broadcasting rights for our league, which has obviously facilitated the collaboration. Thanks to them, we were able to demonstrate that traffic on pirate servers was almost non-existent before the matches, which led to the adoption of an order to block these servers," said Mathieu Moreuil, director of international football relations and EU affairs for the Premier League, at a hearing on the piracy of sports broadcasts by the Commission on Culture Education and Communication of the French Senate on 23/01/2019.

Didier Quillot, the CEO of the LFP; Sophie Jordan, deputy general director at beIN Sports France; Denis Rapone, president of Hadopi (the French "authority for the distribution and protection of intellectual property on the internet"); Jacques Bajon, principal consultant media telecom for Idate Digiworld, and author of the "Media Piracy - A Major Threat for Sport and…