Javier Tebas remains tireless in his fight against piracy, although some of his last pretexts touch cynicism. The president of The League He has just launched an advertisement in which ensures that seeing pirate football has terrible consequences For those who do. Despite the risk, many prefer to play it in these types of pages than to pay the most expensive football in Europe.
“When you see a game on an illegal page they will have access to your camera, microphone from your mobile, accounts and passwords and even your bank data,” The League ensures in its latest publication on social networks. Perhaps the most curious thing is that the organization that chairs Javier Tebas has been sanctioned by the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) for abusive practices.
The one that comes most to this case was a fine that they put to the league in 2019 after he had to pay A penalty of 250,000 euros after using the mobile of 50,000 Spaniards to spy without their consent through the microphone. The main problem is that users were not informed of anything.
On that occasion, Thebes and his said The microphone was being used in the application of the league to detect piracy in bars. That excuse did not serve the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD), who put an exemplary fine to the league after he tried to camouflage that the end was good.
In this 2025, Thebes has returned to another state mail to go from ready with personal data. In this case, The Spanish data protection agency raised its fine to a million euros for implementing biometric recognition systems at the entrance to Spanish stadiums without complying with the guarantees required by the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD).
Thebas's campaign
On its website against piracy, the league warns that now those who want to hack are more exposed to being hacked. «When choosing to use illegal platforms, consumers are exposed to a large number of threats that can compromise not only the security of their devices, but also their personal information, their privacy, and even their bank accounts. On average, a user today needs seven clicks to start the reproduction of a specific title in pirate sites and each click represents one more risk for the consumer, when the average was first of four clicks»They say.
🏴☠️ You have pirate football. They have you.
⚠️ When you see a game on an illegal page they will have access to your camera, microphone from your mobile, accounts and passwords and even your bank data. #And to #Attepairia
– Corporate LaLiga (@laligacorp) August 11, 2025
Remember that Thebes says that piracy makes clubs lose between 600 and 700 million every year of euros in revenue of television rights. The president of the League became tragic last year in this crusade, stating that “it is a real possibility that if this piracy does not change in two years, audiovisual rights will lower. Salaries can go down and some clubs may disappear ».
That may seem to be far from happening to the eternal rise in prices to which Spanish users are subjected at the same time as Thebes's salary is the highest of any European football leader. The president of the League, since he agreed to the position 11 years ago, has multiplied it by 10 regardless of what his fans pay.
