The fight against piracy also lands on Google Play, the already well-known Play Store.
“It is only a very first beginning, but it is truly significant that in these hours Google, on a global level, has removed from its store the pirated application Live Football TV HD, an illegal streaming platform downloaded by over half a million users“, relaunches Massimiliamo CapitanioAgCom Commissioner.
The application was used to watch an infinite number of sporting events, including obviously the Italian football championship.
This result is the result of synergies – continue reading – “put in place by Parliament, by Agcom, by rights holders, by telephone companies and by Internet Service providers to eradicate a phenomenon that causes Italy to lose 1m7 billion every year and over 10,000 jobs”.
Thousands of users still don’t know today that watching a game illegally and clandestinely is a crime and carries a fine of up to 5,000 euros.
Sanction that can be imposed on all users who use applications to illegally watch football matches and other sporting events covered by copyright.
“With the removal of this application, which also brought with it a significant load of advertising, Google demonstrates that it is collaborating in the fight against piracy in the context of law 93/2023, which requires search engines to delist pirated content and ‘all technical measures useful to hinder the visibility of illicit content’ – declares the Agcom Commissioner again, Massimiliano Capitanio – E’ certainly a positive sign, even if dozens of other applications continue to be present in the digital stores which will be reported in the next few days and which will end up in the same way. Naturally we know well that those who have already downloaded the application will be able to continue using it, but users, day after day, are increasingly aware of the crime they are committing and the consequences they risk, and this too is a cultural revolution”.
This action by Google comes alongside – we always read in the note which does not report some adverse events reported by experts in recent daysed. – to the work carried out by the Piracy Shield platform which, in 24 days, disabled 1510 pirated IPs and around 2000 FQDNs, inhibiting the illegal viewing of sporting events by hundreds of thousands of users.
The comment also arrived in the margin Diego CiulliHead of Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google Italy: “Piracy must have no place on our platforms. The law assigns AGCOM new tasks to block pirated content, and on our part we will make no lack of commitment to limit the diffusion of such content, thanks to the Authority’s reports. It’s just the beginning of a stronger collaboration!”