DAZN and Sky Sports leaders have warned the sports media industry that it “faces a financial crisis unless it does not reach its rampant online piracy”, according to Matt Slater from The Athletic. On Wednesday, Dazn Global Rights Tom of Rights Tom Burrows during the Financial Times Business of Football Summit said that “hacking was a” huge problem “to stream it and,” therefore, a problem for all people involved in professional sport “. Burrows: “Media agreements have been concluded on the basis of exclusivity, but I think there is almost an argument to say that you can no longer obtain exclusive rights because the hacking is so bad.” Slater Note Dazn is currently In dispute with Ligue 1 During the value of the five-year agreement they concluded last year, the “response from the French League to the hacking crisis being one of the main complaints of the streaming platform”. The situation is “not supposed to be as bad in the United Kingdom”. But the COO of the Sky group, Nick Herm, also said that “the fight against hacking was an” endless battle “.” Herm suggested that hacking cost the company “” hundreds of millions of dollars “in missing income”. The Enders Analysis research firm, Claire Enders, believes that one of the reasons why the rights of the Premier League media “continue to grow in value is that the League, in partnership with its distribution partners, the police and the main British Internet service providers, was much more difficult to hack than its counterparts elsewhere” (The Athletic, 2/26).
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