beIN launches a new website which reveals the truth about pirate channel beoutQ
The Saudi Arabia-based pirate channel beoutQ has been getting the heat from all sides due to its blatant theft of copyrighted content.
Qatar’s beIN Media Group, which holds the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) rights to almost all major sports events in the world, has suffered the most at the hands of the pirates.
beoutQ Exposed: Industrial-Scale Theft of Global Sports and Entertainment Publicly Revealed:https://t.co/QYgQiNEvuR
Yesterday, the beIN Media Group launched a ‘reveal all’ website that publicly exposes the industrial scale theft of world sports and entertainment programmes carried out by beoutQ for the past 18 months, reported Gulf Times.
The website, https://beoutq.tv, places out in the open a mountain of evidence against beoutQ and will be regularly 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 — most shockingly — sets out in detail all the commercial rights that have been stolen from organisations across the world of sport and entertainment since beoutQ first appeared.
beIN Media Group has launched a website to expose beoutQ, the Saudi Arabia-supported piracy operation that has stolen the commercial rights of sports and entertainment brands for 18 months.https://t.co/1IOzWmRCdW
“What started 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,” Tom Keaveny, beIN’s managing director in the Middle East region, was quoted as saying by The Peninsula.
“This Saudi-supported plague of piracy represents an existential threat to the economic model of the industry,” he added.
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The website details programmes being illegally broadcast in more than 20 countries, a timeline of events and points the finger at several prominent Saudi figures under the headline ‘The Saudi State-Supported Piracy of World Sport and Entertainment.’
beoutQ was launched in Saudi Arabia in August 2017 and since then has illegally broadcast premium sports and entertainment content worth billions of dollars.
BeoutQ, which started as a geo-blocked website available only in Saudi Arabia, has rapidly developed into a sophisticated international piracy operation that provides UK viewers with illegal access to content including Premier League football, The Bodyguard and Game of Thrones https://t.co/osQXgUbypq
While the pirate operation started 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 logos and branding, selling subscriptions, carrying separate advertising and even adding its commentary, reported Qatar Tribune.
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.
.@Socceroos @afcasiancup matches are among the content bing illegally broadcast by Saudi-based pirate channel beoutQ, as exposed by a new website established by beIN MEDIA GROUP. https://t.co/b7xIYlwOXI
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’ll not cease our fight against this unprecedented piracy operation until it’s eradicated.”
