LONDON: The All England Lawn Tennis Club (Championships) Limited (AELTC) has condemned the widespread availability of the Championships through the illegal Saudi Arabia piracy operation beOutQ for the second consecutive year.
The exclusive rights of the AELTC’s broadcast partners – including but not limited to beIN SPORTS, BBC, Canal+, ESPN – have been accessible worldwide through beoutQ’s bespoke IPTV apps, which is not only wholly unlawful, but undermines the commercial value of Wimbledon’s intellectual property all around the world.
The AELTC said it will be making the strongest representations to the UK government to put pressure on the Saudi Arabia authorities to immediately close down the beoutQ pirate operation following its ongoing illegal exploitation of world sport.
AELTC has joined the Premier League, FIFA, Germany’s Bundesliga, Spain’s La Liga and the governing bodies of Asian and European football have strongly condemned the Saudi state supported pirate operation.
Last October, the Qatari government launched a case against Saudi Arabia at the World Trade Organisation, claiming more than one billion US dollars (£786 million) in compensation.
BeoutQ launched in Saudi Arabia in August 2017.
Its inception came two months after Bahrain, Egypt, the Maldives, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen broke off diplomatic ties with Qatar.
