For the first time in this European country, illegal streaming and IPTV sites have suffered dynamic blocking. DAZN won its case, forcing web giants like Google to act.
DAZN, the sports streaming service that broadcasts Ligue 1 football, among other things, is struggling to gain the number of subscribers it is aiming for. The platform may regularly lower its prices or launch charm offensives in partnership with a major fast-food chain, but viewers prefer the easy solution: IPTV or streaming. Completely illegally, of course. A definite loss of revenue for DAZN, which, unsurprisingly, is very actively involved in the fight against the phenomenon.
And for this, there's no question of doing things by halves. Rights holders know very well that blocking a pirate site results in the creation of a clone just a few minutes later. To stem this practice, there's only one solution: dynamic blocking. It prevents access to an address, but also to its copies by rendering domain changes ineffective, for example. Thanks to this technique, DAZN has just shut down more than 100 illegal streaming sites and 5 IPTV services.
A hundred streaming sites and five IPTV services shut down at once, DAZN got what it wanted
The operation took place in Belgium, shortly before the start of the second day of the playoffs of the national football championship. The particularity is that the Belgian justice system forced web giants to bend to achieve this, namely Google, Cloudflare and Cisco. In other words, public DNS providers. Bypassing a block is often done by switching to one of them, hence the interest in them taking matters into their own hands.
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The Canal+ group obtained the same thing to prevent illegal broadcasts of football matches. Our neighbors didn't ask nicely: the injunction is coupled with a penalty payment of 100,000 euros per day of non-compliance. The longer the three companies take to act, the more they will pay, literally. Source: L'Echo
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