Premier League announces pay-per-view fixtures in October

[Rob]

Whack-a-mole though isn't it? There's an infinite amount of possible URL's and the people doing it only have to change a domain or slightly tweak the address and they're back up and running

I'm amazed that the couple of very well known streaming sites that are talked about fairly openly have never had any issues with being blocked.

With IPTV options now, you can get a lot more sophisticated too. Have an IPTV app on your FireTV stick or Shield, connect to it via VPN and get all the foreign channels in 1080p.

 

[Tucker]

It must be to force the UK GOV hand to let some crowds ( however limited) back in

Not sure how this forces the Government’s hand though.

 

[Spurs' Pipe Dreams]

I'm amazed that the couple of very well known streaming sites that are talked about fairly openly have never had any issues with being blocked.

With IPTV options now, you can get a lot more sophisticated too. Have an IPTV app on your FireTV stick or Shield, connect to it via VPN and get all the foreign channels in 1080p.

The Reddit streams subreddit was around for years on a very public domain and only went down last year. Of course websites came up to redirect almost straight away.

£5/game seems reasonable to me and I would probably pay it on top of my Sky and BT for Spurs games but £15/game on ppv is just excessive. I get that revenue for clubs is extremely diminished but unlike many businesses, especially in lower-level sport or entertainment, they are extremely lucky to still be running and although they are in a bubble, I think we will continue to see the occasional positive result and sometimes even some squads to be very limited on match days, which will be Spursy if we lose our front line the night before the NLD or the game that will clinch CL or worse a final

 

[philll]

'Plan will drive fans to illegal streams'

Broadcasting Premier League matches on a pay-per-view basis will lead to fans watching on illegal streams, says a football finance expert.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Sum Monsterism]

this price is a joke.

 

[Tucker]

Looking at the media coverage and reaction on here and twitter, it’s safe to say this has gone down like a cup of sick.

 

[JCRD]

Looking at the media coverage and reaction on here and twitter, it’s safe to say this has gone down like a cup of sick.

I think they'll reverse the decision. Everyone is pretty much unanimous from the media to the pundits to everyone on social media.

 

[scat1620]

I hope that the bottom crashes out of top-flight football finances and that the ridiculous player wages bubble well and truly bursts, so that you guys can watch your sport without being charged a king's ransom to do so in future.

 

[rez9000]

The thing that worries me with this is this sort of thing usually ends up just being the beginning. Take boxing as an example, originally you’d get 1 or 2 massive fights a year as PPV, now there are loads of middling (IMO) fights that are PPV.

There is a danger that it starts out like this and then gradually we end up with the monthly subscription covering the lower interest games and the big games being charged extra individually.

That's precisely the objective. It's the objective of every content-selling platform. Look at Amazon Music, just as an example. It started off as part of a Prime subscription. Now, it's split. Some tracks are still part of the Prime membership, but if you want access to the whole thing, you have to pay another £8 on top.

Look at gaming - everything the big three are doing is designed to push users towards digital content, rather than disc. Why? So they can charge you a monthly subscription whether you play or not.

The whole DRM issue - it's not about protecting artists, or clamping down on piracy. Those are just the side-effects of its main objective, which is to keep content in the hands of the sellers, so that the amount of permanent content in the hands of consumers is as minimal as possible.

It's rentier economics - you own nothing, you just rent everything. And this PPV crap is just the football version of it.

 

[Wsussexspur]

Must say well played to the clubs who “leaked” the news of project big picture yesterday.. it has completely squashed the fury and indignation which has being going around since the announcement of £14.95 ppl costs since Friday evening. Master stroke of by some pr person out there.

 

[tototoner]

Figures must be poor, which is good as hopefully this PPV experiment falls flat on its face

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[Serpico]

Boycott!! (stream if you can) bang out of order . The national sport should go on TV for free during this current situation. They can get advertising money that would return far more than subscription.

 

[mark87]

More than likely it'll be bullshit, but I really hope this is true.

 

[Gareth88]

More than likely it'll be bullshit, but I really hope this is true.

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I expected far fewer

 

[Serpico]

More than likely it'll be bullshit, but I really hope this is true.

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Any season ticket holder should get the game for free with a full refund. Greed will destroy in the end.

“Football provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

 

[Tucker]

More than likely it'll be bullshit, but I really hope this is true.

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That would be hilarious if true.

 

[NickHSpurs]

More than likely it'll be bullshit, but I really hope this is true.

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I hope that's true but got to be a wind up.

 

[worcestersauce]

I've only just taken the sky football package this season as I can't go to games so if they move onto PPV I might cancel, they never told me about ppv when I signed up.
What occurs to me is that I expect lots of people ordinarily watch games that don't include their own team but they would only ppv for their own team's games although not all of them would do so their audience participation is going to be well reduced before they even start.
I don't think this will be the earner they thought it would be.

 

[spursfan77]

More than likely it'll be bullshit, but I really hope this is true.

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74 people too many.

 

[dontcallme]

74 people too many.

But good to see most are not going for this.

I remember as a kid many being appalled at Sky starting to charge additional for the sports channels. Then they added PPVs.

As a kid one birthday I simply asked for tickets to see a Spurs game (mid 90s). Tickets were around £20 each. You could go see QPR in the Prem for £10.

Consumers really need to start saying no. A short term boycott on all sport TV would achieve so much.