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DOHA
beIN MEDIA GROUP on Wednesday published a ‘reveal all’ website which exposes the industrial scale theft of world sports and entertainment carried out by beoutQ, a Saudi Arabia-based pirate TV channel and Arabsat - the Riyadh-headquartered satellite provider, for the past 18 months.
The website https://beoutq.tv places in the open the evidence against beoutQ and will be updated as legal actions against Saudi Arabia continue to mount, so that the pirate operation is held to account.
The website includes materials on where beoutQ is based, who is behind it and details of all the commercial rights that have been stolen from organisations across the world of sport and entertainment since beoutQ first appeared.
In August 2017, beoutQ was launched in Saudi Arabia and since its inception it has illegally broadcast premium sports and entertainment content worth billions of dollars. While the pirate operation started off as a website that was geo-blocked to Saudi Arabia, it has developed into the most sophisticated piracy operation that the world has ever seen, inserting its own logos and branding, selling subscriptions, carrying separate advertising and even adding its own commentary.
Through 10 encrypted channels, beoutQ illegally broadcasts live sports every day, stealing content from every major sports rights holder in the world, including FIFA, UEFA, the Premier League, LaLiga and other football leagues; the NFL, the NBA, world tennis, Formula 1 and the Olympics.
Yousef al Obaidly, chief executive officer of beIN MEDIA GROUP, said: “For the past 18 months beoutQ has stolen, on a daily basis, commercial rights of almost every major sports rights holder and every movie studio around the world. We have a very simple message on behalf of the whole sports and entertainment industry - we will not cease our fight against this unprecedented piracy operation until it is eradicated.”
Tom Keaveny, managing director of beIN MENA, said: “What started out as a concerted and targeted campaign against beIN has now morphed into the largest commercial theft that’s ever been seen in the world of sport and entertainment, affecting everyone from the biggest organisations in sport to Hollywood movie studios and international broadcasters.
DOHA
beIN MEDIA GROUP on Wednesday published a ‘reveal all’ website which exposes the industrial scale theft of world sports and entertainment carried out by beoutQ, a Saudi Arabia-based pirate TV channel and Arabsat - the Riyadh-headquartered satellite provider, for the past 18 months.
The website https://beoutq.tv places in the open the evidence against beoutQ and will be updated as legal actions against Saudi Arabia continue to mount, so that the pirate operation is held to account.
The website includes materials on where beoutQ is based, who is behind it and details of all the commercial rights that have been stolen from organisations across the world of sport and entertainment since beoutQ first appeared.
In August 2017, beoutQ was launched in Saudi Arabia and since its inception it has illegally broadcast premium sports and entertainment content worth billions of dollars. While the pirate operation started off as a website that was geo-blocked to Saudi Arabia, it has developed into the most sophisticated piracy operation that the world has ever seen, inserting its own logos and branding, selling subscriptions, carrying separate advertising and even adding its own commentary.
Through 10 encrypted channels, beoutQ illegally broadcasts live sports every day, stealing content from every major sports rights holder in the world, including FIFA, UEFA, the Premier League, LaLiga and other football leagues; the NFL, the NBA, world tennis, Formula 1 and the Olympics.
Yousef al Obaidly, chief executive officer of beIN MEDIA GROUP, said: “For the past 18 months beoutQ has stolen, on a daily basis, commercial rights of almost every major sports rights holder and every movie studio around the world. We have a very simple message on behalf of the whole sports and entertainment industry - we will not cease our fight against this unprecedented piracy operation until it is eradicated.”
Tom Keaveny, managing director of beIN MENA, said: “What started out as a concerted and targeted campaign against beIN has now morphed into the largest commercial theft that’s ever been seen in the world of sport and entertainment, affecting everyone from the biggest organisations in sport to Hollywood movie studios and international broadcasters.
