Piracy: "A value loss of between €600m & €700m for Spanish football" (LALIGA)

"Audiovisual fraud is a criminal activity that results in significant losses in value for sporting competitions around the world, with a specific value loss between €600m and €700m in the case of Spanish football, an industry which employs more than 190,000 people and which contributes around €8.4bn to the Spanish economy, the equivalent of 1.44% of Spanish GDP," announced the Spanish professional league on 29/11/2024.

The piracy of live sporting events also increased by 36.5% between 2021 and 2023 in the European Union, according to the study "Online copyright infringement in the European Union - films, music, publications, software and TV (2017-2023)" conducted by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and published on 28/11/2024. The study found that there are "at least" 4.5 million illegal IPTV users in Europe.

"Spain ranks as one of the countries with the highest rates of sports piracy in Europe, with one in three Spaniards consuming pirated content, according to estimates from the specialised consultancy agency YouGov in May 2024, and with 59% of Spaniards…