EDIT: “One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue,” explained Newell [0]
[0] https://www.gamesradar.com/gabe-newell-piracy-issue-service-...
The issue isn't "some people don't pay for sports streams". The issue is that some corporate fucktards have managed, through the power of lobbying, backroom deals and blatant corruption, to get an engine of country-wide internet censorship to be created - and then abused on their behalf.
This isn't the first, or the tenth, time it happens. People should have been sued, fired and jailed after the first time they blocked the entirety of Cloudflare for inane "copyright" reasons - and yet, nothing was done, and the censorship persists.
Just because you’ve been abused doesn’t give you the right to be a riled up aßhole to anyone that triggers your emotions.
Yeah are you new to swear words?
A distinction clear to those with long familiarity to swearing and swear words.
I am incredibly pissed off about any attempt to enact Internet censorship - whether political or corporate in nature. And so should be you.
Watching football has become really expensive in the last decade and people are fed up.
Also, sometimes you need different subscriptions to watch all the games of your team.
Meanwhile, piracy is cheap and convenient.
We have a similar anti piracy shield and once we got some Google cdn down for half an hour. Imagine not being able to use Google drive because the football league is trying to block football piracy streams - which are trivially searchable online anyway
As a result, people cancel their subscriptions. To recuperate some of the losses, Viaplay now licenses one match every weekend to a third party streaming service, this year it is on Amazon Prime.
So, now besides the high cost and shoddy service, you suddenly need an additional streaming subscription to be able to view every match. Granted, the streaming on Prime is excellent though.
This weekend, the Prime match was Liverpool v Everton, which as a Dutchie is the most interesting match of the weekend (given Liverpool's title win last season, the Dutch trainer and several outstanding Dutch players).
Several friends of mine who are into football immediately quit their Viaplay subscription, so who knows how many matches will not be streamable through Viaplay next season?
As a legit customer you are constantly chasing an ever shifting landscape of poor quality and overpriced services. Meanwhile with an IPTV subscription you pay little, get high quality streams and have access to _all_ content.
I live in what my TV provider called a "dead zone".
I live in the NBA's "broadcast zone" for the Portland Trail Blazers. That means even with League Pass, I cannot watch their home games, because I am meant to watch them on my local TV provider.
But guess what, I don't live in the Seattle TV zone. So I don't have a local/any station that broadcasts Blazers game.
And the NBA doesn't care either. "Sure, you can only watch half of your team games, sucks to be you."
This is just for La Liga games, you'll need to pay extra if your team plays in other competitions.
Their choice to infinitely segment sports broadcast results in piracy.
Paid Streaming or TV is quite expensive. It's mostly because you have to buy the whole package which includes everything else the company provides. Like Golf or Nascar or whatever they find on ESPN 8.
Also paying for a stream only really benefits the rich clubs. The money la liga earns for tv rights is split between professional teams with Barcelona and the two Madrids receiving about 30% of the money. The other 17 teams get the rest. Some fans don't want to see them getting more money (small percentage but never underestimate fans)
In addition the cost only went upwards while the offering reduced every season as Dazn and other players entered the field. I said goodbye to soccer a few years prior to Covid.
Oh wait, you cannot do that. You have to pay for all the championship together with the Champions League and what not.
You may only want to focus on the rights violations but that doesn’t make the history and reasons irrelevant.
https://base.speccy.org/ProyectoBASE_Historia.html
The parent comment confuses Spain and Italy as if they were the same... as if Spain didn't had French and UK influences from the North at all since the 1600's and before... yeah sure.
Spain had and has picaresca as the Italians, of course... but we aren't 100% the same and it shows off. We used to buy legal games in the 80's because the prices plumetted down because of the piracy, and between the shaddy game loaders and having to wait 15 minutes per load, everyone wanted at least to buy one or two original games in order to play something without losing literal hours trying to tweak the casette player.
Italy in the meanwhile just resold foreing games as if they were local. Some Spaniards did the same too; but it had small powerhouses as Aventuras AD, Erbe Software and such, not just a few by any means.
Example, July 1986 [0]: "Nine Madrid university students involved in a thriving pirated video game business"
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0: https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-sevilla-19860718-40.htmlEven my elementary school had DOS PC's with 5,25 floppies with Spanish and Basque translated games, even Logo... that in mid 90's.
On Copyright... I'm pretty sure Spain was bound to the Berna convention.
And, on piracy, in the 80's (in Spanish, your browser can translate it): https://www.retrogameshistory.com/2021/03/la-pirateria-espan...
LOL, what did you smoke, man?
Having seen how Sweden changed their copyright law in response to the Pirate Bay website [2], I wish everyone knew that it wasn't always this way, and that states maintain their own rules. The idea that "no one shall copy any corporation's media, ever" is a recent propaganda success.
[0] https://www.mondaq.com/copyright/14472/technology-protection...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_file_sharing
Compiled software is not copyrightable in any country that I know of. Compilation is not an original creative process. The original software is copyrightable, and compiling it creates a (protected) derived work of it.
> I see that individual file sharing, except for software, is allowed there.
The Pirate Bay is censored in Spain as much as it is on France.