A court in Murcia, Spain, has ordered Google to testify in a criminal case concerning IPTV app, NewPlay. Football league LaLiga, whose matches were allegedly offered illegally through the app, previously called for the directors of Google, Apple, and Huawei to face criminal charges. LaLiga criticized the companies for failing to disable copies of NewPlay already installed on users’ devices. Google and Huawei must now testify as ‘profit-making participants’ in an alleged piracy scheme.
The league claimed that through the app, users were able to access M3U playlists. These files carry no infringing content themselves, but effectively point to locations where pirated audiovisual content (such as sports, TV channels, TV series, and movies) can be found.
In the specific form it was made available for download on various app stores, NewPlay didn’t appear to contain pre-loaded playlists or links to copyrighted content, at least at the point of delivery.
While acknowledging NewPlay’s ability to consume M3U playlists in a manner not unlike VLC, for example, they argued that NewPlay played no part creating the playlists or the media to which they linked
The court order required Google, Apple, and Huawei to disable or delete NewPlay to prevent future use on users’ mobile devices.
So it’s a HLS stream player app? I fucking hate the football mafia
ffmpeg can play HLS, do not think it about newplay. Think they want precendence to order remote uninstall of any app. Want control over device of other people.
Which even more fucked up.
That’s what I mean, this is massive overreach and completely unwarranted on top of that.
And probably not possible. Why would have function to order device to uninstall app? What if sideloaded after?
Imagine thinking that piracy sites advertize, or generate any sort of revenue for search engines.
It’s not Google’s search buisness that LaLiga is going after it’s the cell phone side. LaLiga claims Google and Huawei benefited by refusing to disable the newplay app on their phones.
Isn’t it more because google ignored court orders to disable a piracy app on the play store?
I swear they have the most ads of any sites I have seen without an adblocker, though I guess they don’t pay to be advertised themselves
Those advertizements tend to be porn, escorts, and “dating sims”. Stuff that main-stream ad companies, Google included, won’t touch. The search engines are not profiting from those ads.
No one will shed a single tear for you, greedy bastards.
