€50 for anonymous tip-offs: LaLiga rewards sports bar snitches | OneFootball

LaLiga will intensify its fight against illegal football broadcasts in hospitality establishments. For this purpose, the Spanish top league has devised a new reward system that is intended to be "quick, intuitive, and confidential."

The initiative has two goals: "On one hand, to protect the establishments that legally broadcast football, and on the other hand, to facilitate citizen participation in the defense of audiovisual rights by providing users with a channel that is accessible and operational at any time via mobile phones," LaLiga explained in a press release today, Wednesday.

Through a special reporting channel, visitors to bars that illegally stream LaLiga games can fill out a short form and attach images proving the broadcast. Then "the monitoring process is activated and, if applicable, the corresponding reward is paid out," stated the league association led by President Javier Tebas.

Only the first four complaints against each establishment will be rewarded with 50€. Additionally, the initiative ends once a total of 1000 complaints have been received.

In bars, voluntary enforcers are to look for a "B" in the corner of the broadcast, while in betting shops it is an "A". The letters indicate that the venue is authorized to show the broadcast. If it is missing, according to Tebas, action can be taken against the illegal stream "simply and in seconds."

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