Premier League Stars Urge You to Stop Illegal Football Streaming & Piracy

While we won't won't bore you with the risks, you can read about the woman who lost RM10,000 after downloading an app to watch pirated content.

Although watching something from a random website may seem innocuous enough, Premier League players from clubs including Liverpool and Manchester City are teaming up to raise awareness of the dangers of illegal streaming in Malaysia, as part of the League’s ‘Boot Out Piracy’ campaign.

The campaign returns for the third year in Malaysia and this season features Premier League stars including Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold, Manchester City’s Ilkay Gundogan, Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy and Leeds United’s Jack Harrison.

They appear in a series of videos which will feature across broadcast and digital channels to raise awareness of the security risks of viewing Premier League football on illegal websites and devices, as well as the disrupted viewing experience presented by illegal streaming.

As part of the campaign last season, the Premier League commissioned research which showed that almost half (44%) per cent of the most popular pirate websites in Malaysia for illegally watching Premier League content carried advertisements, containing either fraud, malware, adult or gambling content, that put consumers at real risk of being victims of online scams, data theft and fraud. Uhm, that’s enough to make us paranoid!

In Malaysia, the Premier League works in collaboration with local broadcast partner Astro on the ‘Boot Out Piracy’ campaign.

Following the successful charge of a woman who owned six illegal streaming boxes (with a fine of RM5,000 per box), the piracy landscape in Malaysia is changing.

Also, with Astro's current push to win the Netflix generation of subscribers, they're offering new customers affordable options.