The Hornet's Nest

Hoping it hits Mr Murdoch in the pocket, but I doubt it , they will appeal it drag it through the european courts and continue to make billions while they are waiting!
Fair play to that publican for not thinking out the box but merely with a different one

 

This is late but well done for 200 postings Sandy. I am sure that with with some material, cotton and a needle you could make a good shirt.

 

Evening Ak how are you getting on with Google chrome?

 

I think for the next few year there will be no change but then Sky will commence to lift their prices for the customers in Britain.

 

I think they would be planning on that anyway. I was wondering (hoping) whether they would negotiate downwards for the screening rights to EPL - meaning less money for those clubs and a drift away of grossly overpaid, overseas 'stars'. Rather than the normal 'squeeze-the-shortfall-out -of-the-punters approach - some hope!

 

That would be ethical BB something Sky doesnt do !

Night all see you tomorrow!

 

At home I have many internet programs where I like Mozilla. Work is strange. There was a decision to move from Outlook to Google Mail and from IE6 to Firefox to have the mail service. Most people have PCs and laptops and they are complaining that now Firefox has gone and Google Chrome is there everything is slower. They were allowed to change early but all would change last week. My computer has unix and was to change last week on Wednesday but did not and I still have Firefox and IE6. The computer man says that to change all our company programs to something new would take too long and cost millions of Kronur

 

Must be the IT type of day - I have finally received my new work lap-top, a rather horrid Dell running the rather horrid Windows 7 and Office 2010...groan, what a pile of ****e that makes up! Still I have copied all of my data and set-ups over and will now take another 2 years tweaking everything to just how I like it....Safari has got to be just the best Browser and running on Lion it is just so fast.....

 

Sky do not have licence to broadcast in France, Canal Plus have it. Of course they cannot stop anyone with the right box and card from getting it. Once it is up there nothing can be done to stop people from watching if they want to.

TV is being received by more and more people by computer and the new TV sets are all being geared up for that change. Sooner or later Sky will have problems with streaming of their material from sites that already do this on a small scale. There are some people out there who will make it available all of the time rather than for the occasional football match as now. When that happens Sky will be spending more time in courts all around the world than providing a decent service that many just cannot afford.

 

Sky biggest fear is the pub market and they and the Prem League will defend that with everything they can - in the ECJ ruling today there are many points that they have sent back to the English Courts to further consider. One is Copywrite, the Prem League own the Copywrite and you can expect that their legal teams already have plans to place to close this door shut very tight! Content is the key....

 

As I read the ruling, Sky have copywrite to things like their titles, preview and highlights discussions, but not to the actual games. I have watched Sky streams via my computer and sometimes a lot of the material that could be regarded as copywrite has been cut out.

 

How many people really watch football on Sky anyway? I can imagine there are some for the national team and a few in the towns where the teams playing are locals. Do you hear people saying "I will go to the bar to watch team 1 play team 2" or "I will not be doing something as I mast stay at home to watch team 3 against team 4" I do not think this. If you are with friends in a bar you might stay and watch but not go deliberatly to watch. I have a friend who will watch Chelsea but not to stop anything else, we do not understand each others football choices.

 

Can't speak for others but that is exactly what happens here - certain pubs are packed full of people on Saturdays, there to watch the football regardless of which teams are playing. I watched our play-off final in Cardiff in one of them & the place was packed to the rafters with what I initially thought were Watford fans, Turned out that they were mainly Celtic fans choosing to support us because of the Malky connection.

 

Hope this isn't as bad as it sounds

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15176078.stm

 

Evening all, how's everyone tonight. i've had a hugely busy day, and i'm looking forward to this week calming down a bit..trouble is, i don't think it's going to! lol

NNW, that looks very bad...good thoughts for him, and those poor players that collided with him

 

One of the local bars was recently taken over by an English couple. They had a small following of ex-pats going in for a spot of Sunday lunch. Not very good quality, but passable. They would also have the local football team and the opposition come in every other Sunday morning for a drink and a chat about the game.

The bar owners thought that it would be a good idea to keep the thirty or so footballers drinking some more by installing a dish and showing the Sky early game. For the first few weeks they did stay, but the diners didn't wish to chat over their meal with TV blasting forth and a load of young guys adding to the noise, so they stopped coming.

Within a couple of months the footballers decided that the football wasn't really good enough to keep them from the home dinner, so they reverted to a couple of beers, then off home to eat there.

Not sure where the owners go from here. Football or food seems to be the question.

 

I'd say food...football will come and go, but regulars who want food are the ones they need to keep...imho..

 

Better have food. Or icehockey.

 

Right I know it is now Wednesday because the dustmen come and our waste bin is nearly full.

So I could perhaps manage a small Horlicks tonight if there is one.

All very quiet here tonight. Mme has lost her voice.

 

He's conscious in hospital now apparently