Roja Directa, the historic illegal sports content website, must pay 31.6 million euros to the Mediapro group for damages caused by the piracy of football content owned by the group. The Commercial Court number two of A Coruña has established the compensation that Puerto 80 and its administrator, Igor Seoane, must compensate Mediapro for the damages caused by the broadcast of LaLiga matches whose related intellectual property rights belonged to the audiovisual group during the 2014-2015 season.
Previously, in 2022, the Supreme Court declared Puerto 80 Projects and its administrator, Igor Seoane, responsible for the illicit activities carried out by the Roja Directa website by illegally distributing LaLiga matches and obtaining large financial benefits from it. Now, the Court of A Coruña has established compensation for the damages caused of 31.6 million; Of that total, the administrator, Igor Seoane, is jointly responsible for 15.8. The calculation of the compensation has been made based on the economic consideration that Puerto 80 should have paid to Mediapro to have access to the signal. Almost 10 years after the start of the judicial proceedings, the audiovisual group, based in Barcelona, has managed to close the website in Spain and establish compensation for the infringement of related intellectual property rights.
The Roja Directa website gave access in Spain to illegal content: it violated intellectual property rights through links that allowed you to watch live Spanish league matches and other sports content that was broadcast on pay television. Although access was free for the user, Puerto 80 obtained million-dollar income through advertising and charging commissions for diverting traffic to sports betting house websites. Judicial expert reports from 2022 showed income of more than 11 million euros in just one of the company’s accounts.
