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Wayne Williams

'Piracy costs our clubs $800m'”: Soccer league home to Yamal and Mbappe to "skewer" free illegal football streams with AI in real time

Kylian Mbappé of Real Madrid celebrates scoring his team's first goal the LaLiga EA Sports match between Real Madrid CF and CA Osasuna at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on August 19, 2025 in Madrid, Spain. .
  • Soccer piracy losses estimated between $700M and $800M annually
  • Real-time AI detection cuts piracy rates across major matches
  • Traditional blocking tools struggle against large-scale streaming networks

Piracy of live football streams has grown into an industrial-scale problem, with Spanish clubs warning that illegal viewing is draining hundreds of millions of dollars from the sport each year.

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