Billionaire Mike Ashley could lose out on an agreed $380 million deal to sell Newcastle United. The Premier League is currently mulling a letter of complaint from Qatar’s beIN Media Group, alleging Saudi Arabia is involved in the illegal streaming of soccer matches.
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“We, the rights holders of various football competitions, collectively condemn in the strongest possible terms the ongoing theft of our intellectual property by the pirate broadcaster known as ‘beoutQ’ and call on the authorities in Saudi Arabia to support us in ending the widespread and flagrant breaches of our intellectual property rights taking place in the country.
“We feel we have now exhausted all reasonable options for pursuing a formal copyright claim in KSA and see no alternative but to pursue beoutQ and a solution to this very serious problem of piracy by other means.”A detailed report from MarkMonitor forms the backbone of the evidence supporting the link between the Arabsat satellites and beoutQ.
According to Anthony Harwood, writing on SportsPro, the controversy dates back to Saudi Arabia’s trade boycott against Qatar in June 2017, during which Saudi Arabian football fans lost access to the Premier League, Champions League, Serie A and La Liga.Saud al-Qahtani, a royal court adviser who reassured sports fans in Saudi Arabia on Twitter in 2017, “The alternative solutions are coming soon and they are going to be free or for a low price.
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