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Olympic Committee and Leading Soccer Organizations Urge the US Trade Apply Pressure to Saudi Arabia over TV piracy. Sports groups say beoutQ's illegal satellite broadcasts stopped last August but its set-top boxes now present an Internet-based pirate IPTV threat, the sports groups say. Saudi Arabia has never brought criminal action against beoutq or its Saudi facilitators and supporters, they say. FIFA and the Premier League urge the USTR to keep Saudi Arabia on the Priority Watch List for 2020 on the basis it denies “adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights”