Tyrone GAA hit out as streaming revenues hit by piracy

Tyrone GAA believe organised crime gangs are behind a pirating operation that has reduced revenue from their live streaming services.

Sport subscription services constantly battle against the interception of their streams through the illegal use of firesticks, apps and other streaming facilities.

Tyrone GAA's information and technology officer Gerard Bradley has claimed the county has been particularly targeted by those individuals and organisations behind the offences.

"The reduction in subscriptions has been clearly identified as being almost entirely due to the activities of organised criminal gangs, with local providers who use modified Firesticks and Apps to pirate Live Streams," Bradley will tell tonight’s county convention.

"The live stream of this year’s championship attracted 15,500 subscriptions from almost 7,000 customers.

"These figures show a significant reduction on the 2022 figures.

"While Tyrone has been particularly targeted by this criminal activity, all other units including the GAA at central level and other sports are also victims.

"The attendance at matches continued to exceed the number of live stream tickets sold."

Tyrone were the only county to live stream every single club championship match this year.

Fifty games were covered throughout senior, intermediate and junior level.

"MacAV, a local company continues to deliver excellent video and production for all our Live Streaming that makes the quality of our product, a market leader," said Bradley.

A clampdown on illegal TV streaming services, known as 'dodgy boxes', has occurred in recent months.

A wave of legal warnings have been delivered in person, by post and by e-mail to people across Ireland involved in providing illegal access to premium TV content.

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