Qatar’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry has welcomed the significant progress in Qatar’s dispute settlement proceedings against Saudi Arabia in the World Trade Organization (WTO), but warns that firm action must be taken quickly against the alleged beoutQ content piracy operation and Arabsat before the Saudi-based pirate operation and Riyadh-headquartered satellite provider destroy the global […]
A study has found that worldwide illegal streaming of the English Premier League (EPL) delivers £1 million (€0.89m) in uncaptured sponsorship media value per match. The study – produced by sponsorship valuation firm GumGum Sports in partnership with digital piracy authority MUSO at the behest of
A young person away at college has a knock on the door. An individual with an ID card and a body cam demands a series of answers and reads them their rights on the basis they may have committed the criminal offence of not having a current BBC TV licence. The person in question – […]
The Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) is the latest sports organisation to accuse beoutQ of blatant piracy. The CAF licenses its games only to Qatar’s beIN Sports, but that doesn’t seem to create a headache for Saudi Arabia’s piracy operation beoutQ which has telecast the 2019 Total Africa Cup tournament. CAF said that all 36 […]
Amazon has confirmed that it wants to launch 3236 satellites into space. Its ‘Project Kuiper’ has already received plenty of speculation, but now the Jeff Bezos-backed business has formally asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve the scheme, and to permit frequencies to be used. Amazon used a July 4th filing to the FCC […]
The arrival of a 160-channel DTH service from neighbouring Laos has prompted Malaysia’s Communications & Multimedia Commission to say it will crack down on what it describes as “illegal satellite dishes”. Reportedly around half of the channels on the LaoSat satellite are in Mandarin Chinese, itself popular amongst some Malaysian communities. Other channel offerings include […]
beIN Sports has been ordered by a Dubai court to pay Saudi Riyals 30 million (about €7m) after losing an appeal against an arbitration ruling which decided that Saudi-based Selevision was owed compensation. The history of the case is complex and extends back to 2016. The case revolves around a business dispute with Selevision. Selevision’s […]
Hundreds of new local digital radio stations could start broadcasting in the UK from 2020, under proposals outlined by broadcast regulator Ofcom. With over 40 per cent of the UK’s radio listening now taking place on the Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) platform, Ofcom’s proposals mark a major step towards expanding local DAB coverage, giving listeners […]
Netflix has vowed to cut back on how often smoking is shown in its original content after a report by US-based anti-smoking group Truth Initiative said tobacco imagery was increasing on small screens and that depictions were much more common on streaming services than on cable television. Netflix said that smoking in programmes aimed at […]
UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom has announced a range of measures to ensure that public service broadcasters (PSBs) continue to deliver high-quality content for UK viewers and listeners. According to the watchdog, public service broadcasting is now at a crucial juncture, as broadcasters face unprecedented competition from global on-demand and Internet services such as Netflix, Amazon […]