As the AIB has reported over the past year, the satellite network BeoutQ is broadcasting sport and entertainment programmes from across the world in what can only be described as industrial-scale piracy. Now Qatar’s beIN Media – the broadcaster most affected by the piracy operation – is ramping up its international efforts to hold the pirates to account.
It is widely believed that Saudi Arabia is behind the piracy operation, borne out by the fact that an operation on the scale that beoutQ operates requires immense resources of the type that only a nation state or a huge, long-established commercial organisation would have.
Now beIN has launched a website giving details of what it says is the evidence it has gathered about the beoutQ operation. It provides a time-line from before the launch of beoutQ through to the present, including beIN’s US$1bn compensation claim against Saudi Arabia.