DECRYPTION – This year, 37% of viewers cheated to watch the matches. Illicit consumption of a “unprecedented scale», According to the Professional Football League.
This is a distinction that French football would have done well without. “ The League 1 wins the title of most hacked sports competition, which is not the most envied “, lamented Benjamin Morel on Wednesday. The general director of LFP Media, the commercial company of the Professional Football League (LFP) spoke at an Arcom conference dedicated to the scourge of illicit consumption of audiovisual and sporting content.
This observation, obviously, is not new. In France, Ligue 1 has always been more hacked than other sports competitions. Still. The figures revealed by the leader are frightening: 37% of people who watched Ligue 1 this season did so illegally, according to a declarative study by the Ipsos institute, commissioned by the LFP at the end of October-beginning of November. And more than a quarter (27%) of these pirates are new fraudsters, since their illicit consumption began…
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