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Re:Sky Asked Govt. To Target Pirate IPTV Resellers via New D... by epolanski on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @11:14AM (#38000345)
Watching your team live isn't really a fundamental human necessity...It's a business and they pay billions for the TV rights..I think Sky alone pays Formula 1 1B per year.

Doesn't EPL rights sell at around 5B per year?

Those are...a lot of 30$ subscriptions to sell and it excludes production costs...

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Re:Sky Asked Govt. To Target Pirate IPTV Resellers via New D... by incahoots on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @11:36AM (#38000634)
I get that, and I have various thoughts on the matter, but I don't wish to divulge this thread into a debate about the morality of the matter.

Regardless, there have been an absorbent amount of studies on this subject, with various inconclusive results.

More reading here: https://techpolicyinstitute.org/publications/intellectual-pr...

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Re:Sky Asked Govt. To Target Pirate IPTV Resellers via New D... by derefr on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @02:25PM (#38003184)
> It's a business and they pay billions for the TV rights..I think Sky alone pays Formula 1 1B per year.

But that's the problem: people want to send a "this should cost less" signal, forcing broadcasters to make these deals for less, forcing the sports organizations to accept less. There's no cheaper alternative that people can legally buy to send that signal; so the only alternative that actually does signal price sensitivity, is pirating the thing.

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