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Podcast: Unofficial Partner Podcast
Episode: UP295 Solving for Piracy
Description: Piracy and illegal streaming is a $28.3 billion a year global business, impacting sports rights holders and broadcasters across the world. Pirate streams of sporting events are not difficult to find on the internet and shutting these down has proved to be a difficult task for sports leagues. While legal action has been successfully brought against several illegal streamers, many are still fully operational. When one stream gets taken down, more pop up in its place.But there are signs of hope. In just one season, LaLiga Tech removed more than 1,065,000 videos on YouTube, more than 368,000 vi...