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Convicted in Zamora the creator of a pirate website that caused 300,000 euros of losses to the League

Raise your hand the fan to football online never connected with “latelete.tv” to follow for free some of the meetings of the League Spanish, Copa del Rey, second division matches, the Champions League, the Premier League, the Bundesliga and Serie A. A very broad fidelity that came to translate into more 200,000 users in a single month.

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Website intervened by the National Police. | LOZ


The damages caused to the National Professional Soccer League exceeded the 300.000 euros Thanks to the advertising that the owner of “latelete.tv” obtained for the high audiences of illegal broadcastsdenounced, finally, in the court. The rhythm of income that was calculated by the uninterrupted activity that “latelete.tv” maintained between the month of June 2014 and February 2018 would indicate that the Zamorano would have obtained succulent income.

The creator of the website, who operated from Zamora, with the initials ANM, did not resist the retransmissions of bullfights either. bulls, basketball, tennis and handball matches, indicate assiduous users of the well-known page. The “hacking” of the various official links of the championship organizations that hung on his page allowed him to offer a extensive menu of matches from various leaguesan illegal activity that could have made him a millionaire, but the League caught him.

Highlights the ability of convicted of a crime against intellectual property after advertising in soccer portals to offer the matches and attract an audienceas well as to get advertising from various firms to pay for their page, a significant volume of advertisers by endorsing the product with a not inconsiderable level of users, explains the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office.

The name “latelete.tv” also appeared on the Internet with the advertising of the football games offered online, all of them from private subscription channels that were broadcast closed. on your website I posted the links to these competitions, so that he offered the sporting events at no cost to him or to the fans.

The Prosecutor’s Office points out that the defendant sought to position himself in the different Internet search engines so that fans of the different sports he offered could access his website and thus increase the number of advertisers in his social network. The Criminal Court He has just been sentenced to 6 months in prison, to pay a fine of 1,800 euros and to compensate the National Professional Football League with 90,000 euros for the damage caused.

Identity fraud

Until yesterday, the defendant denied having created the website and used the closed links to do his own business. During the police and judicial investigation, he stated that he had been impersonated identity to disassociate himself from the crime against intellectual property that he was accused of and that, finally, he admitted having committed minutes before the trial began yesterday.

Another of the arguments he offered to try to have him exonerated was that I had no computer knowledgeso it was impossible for him to have created and managed “latelete.tv”, despite the fact that the investigation pointed to him as the only person responsible for the crime.

The expansion plans of the condemned, that is, the proliferation of advertisements for your website on the Internet ended up frustrating their desire to earn easy money: the National Professional Football League detected the case and launched a research.

The judicial complaint made it possible to verify the movements of his different bank accounts: transfers received with a global calculation of more than 90,000 euros, 80,000 dollars and 30,000 euros for advertising. Payments came through “pay pal”.

The National Police intervened the website and closed it by order of the Court. The conviction of the judge of Zamora disables to processing for six months for the creation and management of companies related to sound or television broadcasting rights, and interactive services.

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