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ChrisO_wiki

@ChrisO_wiki

Aug 25 • 10 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

1/ French football may have played a role in the arrest yesterday of Telegram head Pavel Durov. There has reportedly been a sharp increase in pirate streaming of French football matches on Telegram, which the company has been very slow to deal with. ⬇️

2/ RTL reports that hundreds of thousands of French football fans are watching illegal streams due to the high cost of the officially endorsed DAZN streaming platform. On 16 August, more than 200,000 people used illegal Telegram streams to watch Paris Saint-Germain beat Le Havre.

3/ The broadcasters work with anti-piracy firms such as LeakID and Athletia to detect and report illegal content. However, Telegram reportedly shows "little enthusiasm for cooperating and removing streams in a timely manner."

4/ "They have teams that handle removal requests. But for 90-minute matches, it's useless because the delay is too long. It's a problem of will," explains Hervé Le Maire, the head of LeakID. The LFP (Professional Football League) has a similar complaint.

5/ "All illegal broadcasts are notified by our anti-piracy service provider Athletia. The problem in this regard is that Telegram's response times are variable (up to 24 hours) and are incompatible with timely removal for content broadcast live," according to the LFP.

6/ Le Maire says that "When you notify Telegram, the platform does not close the link but alerts the channel owner of the notification. This gives hackers time to duplicate the streams." Pirate channels advertise up to 4 backup streams in case the main stream is taken down.

7/ The LFP plans to take legal action against "Internet users broadcasting matches on Telegram", and aims to use "legislation that will allow illegal broadcasts to be stopped as soon as possible". This may take place on a Europe-wide basis under the EU's Digital Services Act.

8/ The DSA imposes severe penalties on platforms that breach its requirements, including fines of up to 6% of the platform's worldwide annual turnover, periodic penalties of up to 5% of daily turnover, and ultimately the suspension of the offending platform.

9/ "It is perhaps time for rights holders to file a complaint and for there to be a court decision. Either Telegram plays the game quickly, or Telegram must be blocked. We cannot stay like this. We must hit hard to avoid an industrial catastrophe," says Le Maire. /end

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