The British platform Dazn, the main game broadcaster of Ligue 1, refuses to pay part of the deadline due for the French football championship.
Dazn refuses to pay the LFP, the professional football league, half of the fourth deadline for TV rights, or 35 million euros. The British platform invokes two patterns: high hacking and the bad will of the big clubs to provide images on the side of matches, such as interviews with players they prefer to reserve.
It is therefore a business of big penny who led the league to file a summary complaint against Dazn. The Paris Commercial Court ruled on Friday, February 14 and is expected to render its decision in the coming days.
If the money of the rights of football Supports large clubs, it is also essential for more modest clubs – which have practically no other resources – and for amateur sport via a tax of 5%.
Hacking of the viewing of football matches
This practice has undoubtedly popularized. Last October, the LFP indicated that 55% of viewers of the star match OM-PSG had watched the match illegally. And yet, the Arcom, responsible for the fight against hacking, had blocked 340 domain names on the Internet before kick -off. But it’s a bit like getting scoped in a boat that takes water with a colander. Because the characteristic of matches is that they look at each other live: you have to block the Pirate site during the retransmission. Neither before nor after.
Nearly 7,000 sites have been blocked since 2021, when a more dynamic blockage has been allowed. But according to professionals, it is a drop of water, it would be necessary that the holders of rights can have the pirate broadcasts block directly by the providers of internet access, in real time, as in Italy or the United Kingdom.
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DAZN implicated for its pricing policy
For 2024-2029, where it pays 400 million euros per year, the platform obtained eight matches this summer by offering prices at 30, even 40 euros per month. It is not far from that of which is done elsewhere in Europe, but it is much more expensive than what was practiced until then in France. Signals then flashed to show an upsurge in hacking. And the diffuser was late in his conquest of subscribers.
It would take him 1.5 million at the end of the year, he would only have a third today. However, an output clause ends the contract if the figure is not reached. Since then, Dazn has multiplied the mid -season promotions. But The bankruptcy of Mediapp is in all the heads. And a big absent, Canal+, is watched with a touch of nostalgia.
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