One of the most popular pages to watch football for free was Direct red. A service that, after a fight for years in court, ended up being banned in Spain. Founded 16 years ago, this portal is one of the oldest and best-known sporting event transmission sites in the world, although its future is increasingly up in the air.
One of the last salvos that Rojadirecta had left was an appeal filed in the Supreme Court with the hope that it would take the case and contest the decision of the Provincial Court that agreed to close its website. Nothing is further from reality
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The Supreme Court endorses the closure of Rojadirecta
This page of broadcasting of sporting events, is operated by Puerto 80 Projects, and Igor Seoane is the founder of this portal. As expected, Spain is not the only country that has fought against this pirated content portal and the creator of Rojadirecta thought that, as happened in other countries, he could stand up to Spanish justice.
It should be remembered that managed to challenge the confiscation of a domain by the United States Government, so they had the hope that something similar would happen in Spain. It is true that they have managed to win more than one legal battle, but things are looking worse and worse.
It all started in 2016, when the Commercial Court of A Coruña ruled that Rojadirecta should stop linking with unauthorized streams of football events, its main business model. This order came after a complaint by Mediapro and DTS, who were the ones who had the rights to these sporting events.
In this case, Rojadirecta had no choice but to close access to Spanish visitors, but before that it appealed the decision to the Provincial Court of A Coruña in 2018. It did not achieve its objective either, so He opted to appeal to the Supreme Court, hoping that it would take up the case.
The future of Rojadirecta, increasingly uncertain
Finally, The Supreme Court has decided to dismiss the proceeding indicating in its verdict that the statement that Rojadirecta’s activity infringed intellectual property is true, so the website will remain closed, rejecting the petition.
According to the founder of Rojadirecta, the web is simply a neutral intermediary that indexes third-party content. However, the A Coruña court classified it as a content provider. And it seems that the Spanish justice does not intend to give its arm to twist.
Rojadirecta’s remaining options are rather few, since you can only go to the Constitutional or the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Let us remember that Rojadirecta also has a criminal lawsuit in which the founder of this portal faces a sentence of up to four years in prison.
