The English Premier League owns various rights, most importantly
the broadcast rights to EPL games around the world. A key issue is
preventing pirated live broadcasts of the games.
In Thailand the authorities filed a series of criminal charges
for copyright infringement and operating a business illegally
without case against a group operating a pirated match streaming
service called ThaiExpat.tv.
ThaiExpat.tv used a series of domains around
the SEA region, first located in Hong Kong, then also found in
Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Malaysia to show live matches as
well as offer a full suite of British TV content, including BBC,
ITV and Sky programming. They also sold illegal streaming devices,
which were preloaded with apps enabling pirate broadcasts of
Premier League football.
