December 23 – A commercial court in A Coruña has ordered the website’ Roja Driecta’s s parent company, Puerto 80 Projects, and its director, Igor Seoane, to pay €31.6 million in damages to Grup MediaPro for illegally pirating football broadcasts, including LaLiga matches from the 2014/15 season.
The court found Puerto 80 and Seoane jointly and severally liable for €15.8 million of the total damages. The calculation is based on what the company would have paid for legitimate access to Grup MediaPro’s broadcast signal.