Pirated TV sport emerges as new Gulf battleground | Financial Times:
A pirate television network that is illegally screening the world’s most popular sporting events to viewers in Saudi Arabia has become the latest flashpoint in a clash between Riyadh and Qatar that is roiling the Gulf.
For the past year, an Arabic-language network beoutQ has been showing Saudi subscribers football matches from the World Cup, Europe’s Champions League and the English Premier League, as well as Formula One Grand Prix races and the Wimbledon tennis championships.
But beoutQ’s operations are based on streaming content rightfully owned by beIN Sports, a Qatar-based television network that has spent billions of dollars on exclusive rights to show sporting events across the region.
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