Premier League officials in talks with cyber-security experts to block illegal streaming of matches


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If they can provide quality broadcasts for reasonable prices to countries around the world then they should be able to do it here. People will still go to the match.

I have PLP for about £10/month and I still have a season ticket and get to every home game.

That's what I'm suggesting though......fans can only watch home games by paying on the day but can watch an entire season's away games via tv.
 
Best thing to do is finally lift the outdated 3pm transmission ban and change the rights so that we can all, legally, watch any match we want. f***ing ridiculous that our own league can be viewed a lot more easily in virtually any country other than England (or the UK at least). I don't want to pay for a load of shite man united games but, since I can't go away much nowadays, I'd happily pay a fair price to legally watch every SAFC away game in good quality. People nowadays expect to have this choice
Yeah, this. Too much common sense though for that lot.
 
The key really is that it is possible to let people in London watch legally and it wouldn't have any real negative effect. Unless you want to simply spite people for not living in the north east? Should we only allow people from the North East on to www.safc.com and not allow any non-north east journo from covering the club?

What I'm clearly saying is that ANY fan in ANY part of the world can watch all the away games but NONE, no matter where they live can watch the home games unless they actually go to the match. That's reasonable and protects attendances for home games.
 
No chance.

Maybe block open streams with no VPN/tunneling - but no chance of blocking completely.

At best, making it "harder" for the average user.
I'm no ICT expert but how would you stop VTM's??? I don't think it's possible.
 
What I'm clearly saying is that ANY fan in ANY part of the world can watch all the away games but NONE, no matter where they live can watch the home games unless they actually go to the match. That's reasonable and protects attendances for home games.

Fair enough, that makes sense to me.

There are plenty of ways they could make money from it, I would pay up to £20 a month for all Sunderland away games. Would prefer around £10.

Edit: replied to wrong post. I thought you meant pay for away stream pass and then extra for the home stream if you wanted it.

One mans home game is another mans away ;)
 
What I'm clearly saying is that ANY fan in ANY part of the world can watch all the away games but NONE, no matter where they live can watch the home games unless they actually go to the match. That's reasonable and protects attendances for home games.

Can you not see one massive flaw in that plan?
 
I'm no ICT expert but how would you stop VTM's??? I don't think it's possible.
It isn't mate. None of what they are proposing is possible. They may be able to shut the odd website down here and there but the amount of proxy servers that all this streaming is getting run through there is nothing that can do to stop it, bar shutting the Internet down.

It's where the world was 15 years ago when the music industry was losing out due to MP3 sharing; as soon as they realised streaming their own content is what people wanted and priced it accordingly it sorted out that supply/demand issue.

The PL simply has to follow suit; any attempt to preclude the watching of streams by people with mid-level and above IT ability is simply futile.
 
Sounds like clubs are running scared in case their monopolies are broken. Welcome to a the proper business world lads, you keep mentioning football is a business well hello to proper competition, f***ing deal with it like the rest of the business world does by providing a service/product people want.

The music industry eventually learned the hard way.
 
It isn't mate. None of what they are proposing is possible. They may be able to shut the odd website down here and there but the amount of proxy servers that all this streaming is getting run through there is nothing that can do to stop it, bar shutting the Internet down.
Yes mate, that's what I thought. There are Proxy servers in Russia and Asia. They are a law unto themselves. It's not as if Putin's going to be sympathetic! :)
 
Sounds like clubs are running scared in case their monopolies are broken. Welcome to a the proper business world lads, you keep mentioning football is a business well hello to proper competition, f***ing deal with it like the rest of the business world does by providing a service/product people want.

Exactly this. On the one hand we're told that prices are high because they can sell them and they're a business so are perfectly entitled to make as much profit as they can. Then on the other hand they say we can't possibly allow 3pm games to be shown in case it adversely affects lower league clubs attendances.

Hang on a sec, I thought they were all just businesses, why are we protecting them then? Surely we allow 3pm games to be shown and they have to adjust their business model to remain competitive. Do we tell cineworld that they can't show the new James bond film because an independent cinema in the town might shut down? Can't have it both ways lads and if we're protecting smaller clubs from the full extent of football becoming big business then why aren't we doing the same for the fans? They want to have their cake and eat it and people are getting rightly sick of it
 
I don't think that having the gone matches available to watch on tele would affect attendances much at all mind. People can already watch them at home if they want. If you told me I could sit in the house and watch a home game in nice HD or I could go to the pub with my mates then head over and watch us live I'd be going to the stadium every time, as (I imagine) would the vast majority that do it currently

Yeah, but what we're discussing on this thread is the possibility of streaming being ended so you wouldn't have that choice.
 
What I'm clearly saying is that ANY fan in ANY part of the world can watch all the away games but NONE, no matter where they live can watch the home games unless they actually go to the match. That's reasonable and protects attendances for home games.
What about the team that's playing at home when we're away?
 
Sounds like clubs are running scared in case their monopolies are broken. Welcome to a the proper business world lads, you keep mentioning football is a business well hello to proper competition, f***ing deal with it like the rest of the business world does by providing a service/product people want.

Good post.
 
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