IPTV, touched, sunk! The LFP is a decisive blow to piracy

Sunday evening, while PSG dominated OM (3-1), another battle was playing behind the scenes. The Arcom led an illegal IPTV platforms against IPTV platforms, blocking 171 domain names during the 26th day weekend. The information was disclosed by the team on Monday. A targeted offensive, coordinated with the LFP and the diffusers, to suffocate the pirates in real time.

A two -step strategy: prevention and repression

Thirty minutes before and after the classic kick -off, the audiovisual gendarme drew its legal weapons. Objective: to disrupt illicit flows when millions of fans connect. “It is a technological war,” says a source to the Arch. Result ? A figure down 50% compared to the first PSG-OM of the season (340 sites blocked in October), proof that the pressure is bearing fruit.

Dazn, first beneficiary?

The operation fell out of date for the British diffuser, who recently threatened to “make his suitcases”. Brice Daumin, Managing Director of Dazn France, denounced the French slowness in February: “In Italy, there are 18,000 links in a weekend. Arch takes three and a half years to make 5,000! »» A cry of alarm understood: this time, the institution acted during the match, including Sunday. A first.

The study commissioned by LFP Media in October sounded the alert: more than half of the classic viewers had opted for illegal streams. A colossal shortfall for Ligue 1, already weakened by the collapse of the TV market. But the joint clubs clubs/arch/diffusers begins to reverse the trend.

A halftone victory … but a victory

If the 171 neutralized sites remain modest in the face of the thousands of pirate links, the method evolves. By broadcasting an anti-pirate message before the matches and targeting the “super weekends” (maximum crowds), the LFP adopts an educational and repressive approach. “It's a marathon, not a sprint”, tempers an expert.

And now ?

Dazn, which today has 500,000 subscribers in France, sees this mobilization an encouraging sign. It remains to accelerate the rate: to block redirects in real time, as do England or Italy. An emergency, while the broadcaster has a clause to withdraw next December if his hearing objective is not achieved.

One certainty: hacking will not die at once, but each blockage is a claw. And the LFP, after years of laxity, finally has the fangs.