the boss of Arcom tackles DAZN

Since DAZN obtained the right to broadcast Ligue 1, the platform has continued to be criticized. The fault is the excessively high prices of its subscriptions. If the company has carried out weeks of promotion offering subscriptions at a reduced rate, it does not convince many people. Therefore, DAZN must face very big piracy problems. A concern which forced Arcom to pursue illegal sites. Heard by the Senate, the head of the Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority, Roch-Olivier Maistre, returned to this problem.

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He also did not hesitate to attack DAZN, which he believes is guilty of having caused this phenomenon because of its exorbitant prices. “When there is an offer at a balanced and reasonable price for the consumer, piracy, I was going to say, disappears. In terms of music, it’s very clear. Piracy has melted like snow in the sun because we can access an almost universal offer for a reasonable price. (…) When we have exorbitant prices, we are sure to fuel piracy. » To the wise…