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I agree completely, I said in this thread as soon as this topic came up, Netflix showed the model to make it so convenient to stream television that it completely eliminates people desire to search for a free option. The prem has seemingly completely ignored that and I think they'll lose money from a lot of people who will now find other means to watch the game.
With that said, I think what's important to note is Sky and BT get the big games, if they're making PPV games which wouldn't normally be available to the public then I think that's a good model as long as season ticket holders get a free code to stream the game considering they already paid to view the thing. Then they should make those games imo no more than a fiver. I think that's the price point to say, yeah that's worth it and I think people would probably be less likely to illegally watch the game because as you said 15 quid will send people onto google.
In terms of it sending people to google... it's not gonna be an increase on people though? People who watch streams already are gonna keep on watching streams.
Now, whilst not many of them seemingly, but now that the games will be made available in stable HD legal way via PPV you're gonna get some who streamed moving to PPV.
I don't see there now being a large group who didn't originally watch streams in the first place, now going to streams. You'll get a slight increase as you don't have fans in the stadium atm so that group are gonna try and find alternatives, but will they all go to streaming or will they go PPV? We don't know and I think we might be underestimating how many people will go the PPV route.
For as greedy as the Premier League is and as high a charge as this may be (and with every chance for it to backfire) let's not pretend they didn't have meetings about this with people and, whatever research they did, they as a successful business figured £15 was a good price for a reason. I think it's a flawed reason but I don't do business.