IOC Sends Thousands of DMCA Notices to Block Pirate Live Streams of the Olympics
Published on August 1, 2024
Following legal action by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), French Internet providers have blocked unauthorized broadcasters of the Paris sports events, including pirate streaming sites and IPTV providers, TorrentFreak reports. These measures will remain in place until September 8, when the 2024 Olympic events conclude.
The IOC, International Paralympic Committee (IPC), and the Paris Organizing Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP2024) have been closely monitoring the piracy situation. In mid-July, as part of the site-blocking process, legal action was started against the leading French ISPs.
IOC, IPC, and COJOP2024 obtained an ISP blocking order at the Paris Judicial Court last Wednesday, with the rightsholders saying around 30 domains with previously infringing behavior were available in France:
The court issued a dynamic injunction, allowing blocking measures to be modified for countermeasures, such as new pirate domains replacing the bared ones, which telecoms regulator Arcom will rapidly block as soon as the Olympic organizations flag them.