https://torrentfreak.com/parasitic-iptv-piracy-is-killing-football-its-them-or-us-says-serie-a-ceo-240912/
Serie A's CEO says Italy's piracy battle is a fight to the death. "Football is being killed," he said recently, "it's either them or us."
In Italy, the cost of subscription for streaming serie A soccer is 5% of the average net wage. And then you need to add the cost of broadband as it's only streamed, no TV broadcast.
A low wage worker would need to literally skip meals in order to watch those overpaid clowns kick a ball.
Buy less Lamborghinis, reduce the price, have enough servers to allow for a service that doesn't crash and stutter for the first half of the match, then maybe more people would stop paying the illegal IPTV services that are charging 1/10th of the legit service
As of now, illegal IPTV services are giving a better service (no stuttering for half match), a better experience (a m3u can work with older smart TVs without Android) for 90% less money. And sometimes even better support
Many people also pay for a VPN+a subscription to paramount plus USA and they can watch serie a from Italy at 50% off.
As an Australian I genuinely find European football salaries obscene and a bit disgusting tbh. Over here both of our major codes of football, NRL (rugby) and AFL (aussie rules) have had salary caps since the late 80s. It's not something implemented per player, but instead for the total roster of a club. The point is to make the competition fairer and well, more interesting, because you don't have all the good players concentrated into a few super clubs. In 2022 it was $13.5m for AFL clubs and $10m for NRL clubs. As well, if you breach it you generally don't get to earn points on the ladder until the following season. If you did it in the past, won a premiership and it's discovered, the title will be stripped.
It makes sense
In the serie A let me see what they can do with that money... Uhm the Juventus can't even pay for Dusan Vlahovic (he gets €12 million - net per season)
I mean yes, those numbers are fairly low because they're designed to keep the sports sustainable in the Australian market.
Even if the cap were €100 million, that would still be a lot fairer than a free-for-all.
Wow... Talk about getting greedy.
Ain't working class slaves the back bone of sports ball games?
Why are they being priced out lol
Same thing in us... who cna afford NFL ticket lol
What's fun is that a season ticket to watch home matches at the stadium costs around half of what you would pay to stream them
See then you have the whole thing in the US where the local TV market, including streaming services, won't allow you to catch a game playing at a local stadium. It's called a blackout, I guess to encourage you to go in person. Basically those services only make sense if you don't follow a local team, or you watch a bunch of other games each week.
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The most profitable league in all of sports...
Is being killed?
I don't think that means what they think it means.
These days, profits growing slower than anticipated (but still growing) is framed as losing money.
Lmao. Now im going to pirat all sports just because. I don't even want to watch it, just putting it on the torrent server.
i know this is about italy but premier says the same thing yet they keep continuing putting all the games behind sky instead of the bbc/freeview