The National Police has announced that it is inspecting 166 establishments for illicit distribution of television signals from soccer matches.The establishments are spread over many cities throughout Spain: Seville, Malaga, Cordoba, Zaragoza, Valladolid, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Gijón, Madrid, Vigo, Las Palmas, Bilbao and Barcelona.In Genbeta LaLiga wants the EU to ban these IPTV apps.The problem is that they are totally legal.The 166 defendants are listed as allegedly responsible for a crime against intellectual property.The National Police calculates that the economic damage caused to the owners of the illegally distributed audiovisual content amounts to more than 1,000,000 euros.The investigation began in January 2022 after a complaint filed by LaLiga against hospitality establishments in different Spanish cities.The complaint was due to the possibility that they were illegally distributing the signal of soccer matches of Spanish teams, without the authorization of the owners of said content.It must be remembered that it was recently learned that LaLiga has used illegal tools in the past to find out which bars broadcast content in these circumstances.People who 4 years ago had the official LaLiga app installed on their mobile phones to keep up to date with the news of football competitions, may also have activated a function that turned the mobile into a 'spy' for the Professional Football League.There is already a ruling in this regard that fines LaLiga.Now something similar is not known to happen, but we see that it would not be the first time either.In Genbeta LaLiga wants the EU to ban these IPTV apps.The problem is that they are totally legal.Illegal broadcasts of football matches, as well as in any other sport, is something that has been harming LaLiga and other institutions for years.Therefore, the way to detect and take down those web domains that offer games for free has evolved considerably.The last of his technologies is Blackhole.Among its tasks is that of extracting information from the IPTV and Cardsharing platforms, along with the list of servers that run the websites.During the course of the investigation, the agents carried out the appropriate checks on the commercial establishments that broadcast football matches from the La Liga Santander and UEFA Champions League competitions.According to official information, all the operatives were inspected in a coordinated manner during the operation.After this, "the entire infrastructure that allowed the illegal display of paid multimedia content was dismantled" and this service has been terminated.The owners of the investigated commercial establishments are charged with a crime against intellectual property as allegedly responsible for distributing audiovisual content fraudulently.What is known is that bars illicitly accessed protected content broadcast on encrypted channels, via decoders or microcontrollers.The dispute between LaLiga and the platforms that show football for free is historic."With this they obtained a fraudulent economic benefit, since they offered the possibility of watching sporting events, only broadcast through encrypted channels that made them possessors of an extra service that other establishments did not offer."For the owners of the original audiovisual content, losses of 1,066,386 euros are calculated.They say from the Almeida law firm that neither in Spain nor in Europe does football have copyright.The National Police Corps should not work for the League: there is no crime against intellectual property.Neither in Spain nor in Europe football has copyright.The National Police Corps should not work for the League: there is no crime against intellectual property.https://t.co/ncZYfQJt7J- Almeida (@bufetalmeida) May 23, 2022Neither in Spain nor in Europe football has copyright.The National Police Corps should not work for the League: there is no crime against intellectual property.https://t.co/ncZYfQJt7JIn fact, this group of lawyers recalls that "the only illegal application was the one developed by the League to monitor football in bars. It was sanctioned by the Data Protection Agency."And with this, they add that if we allow football bigwigs to censor the software, the information will be counted in football fields and not in gigabytes.Of course, the difference between football being intellectual property or not is 6 years in prison for the owner of the bar.As they explain, football lobbies in Europe want to legislate it, but football still does not have copyright.Share The National Police closes an IPTV service with which 166 bars watched LaLigaIf you liked it, you can receive more in your mailWe send you our newsletter once a day, with everything we publishMore Sites You'll LikeSee more articlesSee more videosMore Sites You'll LikeSee more articlesSee more videos