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With around 400 million Spanish speakers and tens of millions of passionate football fans, Latin America is a natural overseas market for top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga. <\/p>\nWith around 400 million Spanish speakers and tens of millions of passionate football fans, Latin America is a natural overseas market for top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga. <\/p>\n
At least initially market prospects look quite good. Data reported in 2023 by LATAM-focused anti-piracy group Alianza (DirecTV, SimpleTV, SKY Brasil, Warner, Disney, LaLiga & more<\/a>) around 98.2m households in the region have access to broadband. <\/p>\n The fly in the ointment is that an estimated 40 million of those households engage in piracy. Within Argentina\u2019s 11.3 million broadband-enabled households, 4.8 million households have a penchant for piracy, a 42.6% piracy rate overall. That\u2019s not quite as bad as Mexico (46%) and nowhere near Ecuador\u2019s overall rate (58.6%) but somehow significantly worse than Brazil (38.4%). <\/p>\n In an announcement Thursday, LaLiga reported relatively rare success in Argentina after teaming up with Alianza and local law enforcement. Under the authority of orders issued by the Juzgado de Garantias N\u00ba 4 (Court of Guarantees No. 4) of San Isidro, as part of a legal process in which LaLiga is a plaintiff, local distributors of MagisTV subscriptions were targeted in several regions of Argentina.<\/p>\n The orders were signed by Judge Esteban Rossignoli, who recently ordered<\/a> local ISPs to carry out live blocking to protect the Champions League and Argentine League finals.<\/p>\n LaLiga reports that after the Court issued multiple arrest warrants, Argentine Federal Police and local forces conducted five simultaneous raids that led to the execution of arrest warrants in Chubut, Mendoza, and R\u00edo Negro. <\/p>\n Assistance was provided by LATAM online market Mercado Libre and payment platform Mercado Pago, both of which receive praise from LaLiga for their contribution. Several years ago the former was itself declared a Notorious Market for failure to tackle infringement, but since its removal from the list in 2021, there\u2019s been no looking back.<\/p>\n LaLiga reports that one of the main targets was local internet service provider UV Mundo Digital. With offices in Trelew and Rawson in the province of Chubut, it appears that those two locations were targeted in the operation. LaLiga claims that the ISP sells subscriptions to MagisTV Pro, promoting the packages on a website (still online), social media, and in its retail stores, \u201cunder the guise of legality.\u201d<\/p>\n During the course of the investigation, police reportedly visited UV Mundo Digital\u2019s premises and were informed that in addition to regular packages, they could also offer a \u201cdifferent internet service and different cable service, installed by a third party with a different price.\u201d A provided booklet reportedly concerned MagisTV Pro.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n LaLiga\u2019s criticism of the ISP and CABASE (the non-profit association<\/a> it\u2019s a member of), sits in stark contrast to the warm words used to describe companies that are actively collaborating.<\/p>\n \u201cThis type of operation demonstrates that CABASE is influenced by some ISPs that violate legal standards related to audiovisual fraud and others that refuse to comply with judicial orders,\u201d says Javier Tebas, president of LALIGA.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are very satisfied with the collaboration of ALIANZA and LALIGA, as well as with entities like Mercado Libre, which have supported the investigation. We firmly believe that collaboration is key to eradicating audiovisual fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n LaLiga says the authorities have requested the arrest of four individuals identified as \u201ckey operators\u201d in the distribution of MagisTV Pro. They used accounts at Naranja X and Binance, and may not have anticipated that using the services of Mercado Pago was a mistake. It\u2019s alleged that some accounts accumulated amounts exceeding 160 million Argentine peso, around US$125,000<\/p>\n \u201cAll of them were directly linked to the sale of illegal accounts through banking evidence, IP address records, and messages extracted from messaging applications,\u201d Spain\u2019s top football league reveals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Whether collaborating with LaLiga and Alianza will help to remove Argentina from the USTR\u2019s Priority Watchlist remains to be seen. However, for UV Mundo Digital owner Ulises Jorge Vel\u00e1zquez, the situation seems to be deteriorating. He\u2019s now considered a fugitive with a warrant out for his arrest. <\/p>\n According to a La Nacion report<\/a>, the alleged duration of offending appears to be quite short. <\/p>\n \u201cFrom at least January 1st until the 7th [of July 2025], Vel\u00e1zquez and the other suspects offered Magis TV Pro accounts for sale, with monthly payments, to distribute television signals without proper authorization,\u201d Prosecutor Musso wrote in a request for the suspects to be arrested. <\/p>\n \u201cThe APK (Android application) operates in clear violation of the rights of the owners of the works. All of this was done through the website www.magispro.lat and WhatsApp contacts associated with them, with monthly payments made through transfers to virtual wallet accounts and even through crypto assets,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n \u201cBased on the evidence presented, I interpret this criminal act as constituting the crime of infringement of intellectual property law,\u201d the Prosecutor added.<\/p>\n From: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\nLaLiga & Alianza Target #1 LATAM IPTV Menace, MagisTV<\/h2>\n
Local ISP Allegedly Acted as a MagisTV Sales Outlet<\/h2>\n
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