PARIS: Close on the heels of a French court ruling that Arabsat was complicit in the beoutQ piracy operation, FIFA declared it was “seeking the cooperation of” the Saudi-headquartered satellite distributor in addressing the misuse of FIFA’s intellectual property.
“FIFA is aware that unauthorised transmissions of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 are being made available across the MENA region, primarily Saudi Arabia, via the pirate broadcaster known as beoutQ,” FIFA said in a statement to The Associated Press news agency.
“BeoutQ’s unauthorised transmissions of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 are made available by way of Arabsat satellite frequencies.
“FIFA is therefore seeking the cooperation of Arabsat in addressing the misuse of FIFA’s intellectual property.”
“Even if we are illegally denied access to justice in Saudi Arabia, we will use every means possible to hold beoutQ and Arabsat to account for their daily theft of rights-holders’ intellectual property,” AP qotes beIN group chief executive Yousef Al-Obaidly as having said.
“But we are not fighting this battle alone – the weight of the international community is now firmly coming to bear on Saudi Arabia to end its safe haven for piracy, which is destroying not only the economic model of the global sports and entertainment industry, but the livelihoods of content creators all around the world.”
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