Serie A, piracy’s hours are numbered: government ready to pass anti-piracy law. Here’s what’s happening
The war on piracy raises the tone. Because next week or the week after at the latest, with the aim of the law coming into force before the start of the next Serie A, Bill number 621 will be in the Senate. And let’s go and see what it says.
The long-awaited new anti-piracy law will be a reality. All that will be missing at that point is the promulgation by the President of the Republic and publication in the Official Gazette. And according to the Gazzetta dello Sport on newsstands, the goal has never been so close, to the delight of broadcasters whose aim is to limit damage to a minimum. Huge damages, which quantified under the purely money aspect – which are the ones that make the difference – touch many millions of euros. In short, even for Serie A clubs the so-called pezzotto is a problem. But now it could be solved.
Serie A, here is the law against pezzotto
Diletta Leotta (Lapresse)
But what is expected? Mainly that the president of the Senate, and big Inter fan, La Russa, will put the issue on the agenda. Then it will be only and exclusively a countdown to what must be. A matter that must be closed by the first week of August because then the parliamentarians will go on holiday. And if the goal is for this law to come into force before the start of the championship, then it can go no further.
“This will be a law at the forefront at European level for the fight against piracy, a phenomenon that, according to the numbers contained in the Ipsos survey on behalf of Fapav, the Federation for the Protection of Audiovisual and Multimedia Content Industries, is worryingly on the rise: in 2022, illicit takings were 345 million, 30 million more than in 2021 (+9%). When the law comes into force, ‘Agcom, in cooperation with the national cyber-security agency, will convene a technical roundtable in which service providers, Internet access providers, TV rights holders, content providers and audiovisual media service providers will participate’.