French TV asks Google for help. It’s about the Olympics
French courts have ordered the immediate blocking of nearly 30 websites offering illegal sports broadcasts from the Paris Olympics, but that’s not the end of it, because piracy is to be cut down to the stump.
The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris have just begun and will last until August 11, but while the public is excited by the controversy surrounding the opening ceremony and, of course, the sporting results, a major legal battle is taking place in the background. Specifically, over broadcasting rights.
On Wednesday, July 24, a Paris court agreed to the requests of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee (COJOP), effectively ordering internet service providers blocking of nearly 30 websites offering illegal broadcasts of competitions. This decision is valid until September 8.
According to the public media group France Télévisions, this step will be insufficient, it reports. The Informer. The sender reportedly contacted Google to discuss the possibility of removing indexed pages from search results in real time.
The thing is that nationwide blocking of a given website is not that simple in formal termsFor this to happen, the rightful owner of the television rights must have the indicated address entered on the blacklist kept by the regulatory authority for audiovisual and digital communications (Arcom), which requires a court judgment.
France Télévisions complains that, given the speed at which illegal IPTV is being created, it has very limited options to combat the grey zone. Google could help. Not completely, of course, since it cannot cut off access to individual sites, but at least it would make them more difficult to find.
