Illegal PL streaming - 11 years in prison for "gang" leader.

[bluetonium]

I agree with some of what you’ve said there, but don’t you see any virtue in the collective tv deal?

Do you think there would be any downsides to the competitive nature of the premier league, if every team was allowed to sell their own individual tv season ticket and keep their own profits? I can think of 2 clubs in particular who would be over the moon about that kind of a set up. Not sure about the other 18 though …

It's the flexibility to choose that I'd like to see.

Pay for every game. Pay for one. Pay for all games with one particular team. Have special offers and 20, 40, 60 game top ups. Maybe it has to be based on the league games only as they're the only ones guaranteed.

It's inevitable that some teams are bigger draws, have bigger fanbases, so you have to protect against that somewhat by offering price equality. Same price to watch 38 Brighton games as it would be to watch 38 united games, eliminate the bargaining power of individual clubs in favour of agreeing a base rate based on making all games available and getting more viewers on board Vs the current model. But that's a risk, and one broadcasters don't need to take unfortunately, at the viewer's literal expense.

 

[chesterbells]

It's the flexibility to choose that I'd like to see.

Pay for every game. Pay for one. Pay for all games with one particular team. Have special offers and 20, 40, 60 game top ups. Maybe it has to be based on the league games only as they're the only ones guaranteed.

It's inevitable that some teams are bigger draws, have bigger fanbases, so you have to protect against that somewhat by offering price equality. Same price to watch 38 Brighton games as it would be to watch 38 united games, eliminate the bargaining power of individual clubs in favour of agreeing a base rate based on making all games available and getting more viewers on board Vs the current model. But that's a risk, and one broadcasters don't need to take unfortunately, at the viewer's literal expense.

I know what you mean about flexibility, but even if Brighton and united both had same price for 38 games, thinking about UK and worldwide subscription numbers,
wouldn’t those profit differentials would be game over for the viability of a competitive PL? It’s the elephant in that room, and everyone in football realises it I suspect.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I know what you mean about flexibility, but even if Brighton and united both had same price for 38 games, thinking about UK and worldwide subscription numbers,
wouldn’t those profit differentials would be game over for the viability of a competitive PL? It’s the elephant in that room, and everyone in football realises it I suspect.

Well yeah, as soon as you start allowing people to subscribe to individual clubs, you'll inevitably have clubs insisting on not sharing the money that their club brought in. Having said that, what you currently have in the UK is the football being used to coerce people into buying subscriptions to a load of other wank you don't want, like 200 channels of shite and an overpriced phone and broadband package. In America it's even worse. It was mooted a while back that the Premier League could stop having a broadcaster altogether and just sell the product direct to the customer, and they could charge a fraction of the cost of Sky.

 

[Blue Mist]

Sky miss out on a few quid - 11 years

Manslaughter -you might miss a Christmas or two.

Nice to see where the country's judicial priorities are

That is a very good point. The average sentence for manslaughter is 6 years.

 

[Gray]

There's another thread on this somewhere.

It’s behind a paywall.

 

[GOULDYBOBS]

The nonce got the longest sentence right?

Right?

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

what you in for lad?

Illegally streaming the Premier League

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

It seems like an annual occurrence that they break up a snide streaming gang as a warning to others - closely followed by nonsense threats that you might get prosecuted for subscribing.

 

[Barcon]

They can lock me up. My mate said they do lemon chicken on Wednesdays.

 

[tweety]

A few years back my sky bill went to over 140 per month, enough was enough. Their pricing has risen exponentially since the start of the Premier league. If they hadn't have been so greedy iptv probably wouldn't have taken off and they'd still be getting my money.