SKY AND BT SPORTS NEXT SEASON.

From sisu's business insider link earlier

"But is streaming unlicensed content online illegal? Jim Gibson, director of the Intellectual Property Institute at the University of Richmond law school, told Business Insider that streaming online content breaks the law in two cases.

When the user downloads even part of a file — called "pseudo-streaming" — it counts as a copy of copyrighted material, which is illegal. And when the user streams content as a "public performance" — namely, when it's shown to a substantial number of people outside the normal family circle and its close acquaintances — it also constitutes a copyright violation.

Outside of these cases, accessing unlicensed streamed content is generally legal."

Now that bloke, quote, law school etc could all be fake but at least post something that tells us its illegal apart from you saying so.

 

Remember how CDs used to be dead cheap and then the internet came along and piracy made them super expensive?

Oh wait, that didn't actually happen did it?

 

BT Sport wins £900m Champions League TV rights from Sky and ITV
• Exclusive three-year contract will run from 2015
• Sky feels BT paid 'far in excess' of its own valuation

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BT Sport will show all Champions League and Europa League matches from the beginning of the 2015-16 season. Photograph: Friso Gentsch/ Friso Gentsch/dpa/Corbis
Owen Gibson

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Saturday 9 November 2013 13.41 GMT Last modified on Thursday 22 May 2014 09.01

British sports fans have always loved an upset. Little Wigan's victory against the might of Manchester City in last year's FA Cup final was the most popular triumph for years. Now the prohibitively expensive world of football broadcasting has witnessed its own cup shock.
BT, the new kid on the block, has scored a major coup in its multibillion-pound sports broadcasting battle with Rupert Murdoch's Sky, after agreeing a dramatic £900m deal for exclusive live rights to European football's blue-riband club competition from 2015-16.
The deal, perhaps the most significant since Sky transformed its business 21 years ago by buying exclusive rights to domestic top-flight football, will see BT pay Uefa £299m a season for three years for all 350 live matches in the Champions League and its sister tournament, the Europa League.
At a stroke, it gives BT ownership of some of the most prestigious and eagerly anticipated moments of the football season and ends Sky's dominance of a sport that has been crucial to the broadcaster's broader appeal.
It is the most dramatic twist yet in a bitter battle that began when BT paid £738m for 38 live Premier League matches a season and signed up presenters including Jake Humphrey and Clare Balding to broadcast from new studios in the Olympic Park, as part of a £1.5bn foray into sports broadcasting. The move was designed to transform its image from staid telecoms company into a 21st-century multimedia business.
The existing Champions League deal, under which Sky and ITV share the rights, is worth just £400m. The huge increase is good news for clubs, players and agents, but it remains to be seen whether it will be good value for fans.
As part of the negotiations, Uefa insisted that some matches, including both finals, were shown free-to-air in order to preserve the value of its sponsorship deals and ensure that they could be seen by a wider audience.
But there could still be a backlash from fans angry at more matches disappearing from terrestrial TV. Under the current agreement, one game in every round of Champions League matches is shown on ITV, as well as some Europa League games.
BT promised that every participating British team would be shown free at least once per season to non-subscribers.
The deal will also set the scene for a titanic struggle over the next set of Premier League rights, from 2016-17, when BT will have to weigh up whether to go head-to-head with Sky for a greater share of matches. At the moment, Sky shows 116 live games a season to BT's 38.
BT said subscribing to its coverage of the Champions League and Europa League would be "more accessible and affordable" than the cost of paying for Sky Sports, which currently has the rights to all but one live Champions League match in each round of games.
By putting all the Champions League and Europa League matches in one place, it will also open up new possibilities for broadband and interactive services based around its programming.
It means the end of live European club football on BBC or ITV, but BT's commitment to free matches over satellite, cable and broadband is likely to quell some of the criticism from fans. ITV could yet pick up a highlights package.
Gavin Patterson, the recently appointed BT chief executive who oversaw the launch of BT Sport in his previous role as head of the retail division, said he was thrilled. "Both tournaments are world class and firm favourites with many. The live rights will give a major boost to BT Sport and give people yet another reason to take our terrific service," he said.
"BT Sport has got off to a strong start with customers enjoying what we have to offer. We have attracted millions of customers by giving sport back to the fans, and we can assure people who want to catch all the action that European football will be far more accessible and affordable with BT."
Sky will argue that it forced BT to overpay for the rights, but it will be galling for the Osterley-based broadcaster to be outgunned with the sort of dramatic intervention it has specialised in over the years.
"We bid with a clear view of what the rights are worth to us. It seems BT chose to pay far in excess of our valuation," said a Sky spokesman. "We take a disciplined approach and there is always a level at which we will choose to focus on something else. If we thought it was worth more, we'd have paid more."
Since dramatically announcing its arrival in the market with its £738m deal for Premier League games, BT Sport has also announced a joint deal with the BBC for live FA Cup coverage and invested in a new studio at the Olympic Park in east London.
It has also signed an exclusive deal for Premiership club rugby and is awaiting the outcome of a bitter battle over the future of the European club competition, which it hopes will result in a new breakaway tournament from next season.
John Petter, chief executive of BT Retail, said that the deal proved BT Sport was "here to stay" and rejected Sky's suggestion that it had overpaid for the rights. "They would say that, wouldn't they? Secretly, I'd expect them to be kicking themselves and full of regrets this morning," said Petter.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/nov/09/bt-sport-champions-league-exclusive-tv-rights

 

the one thing i am really hoping for here with the europa rights being bundled is that it creates something across europe. I'd love the europa games be tagged on before the CL games on some weeks to create a double header event midweek.

6pm kick offs.

it would at least give us some sort of chance that the tv moeny for europa increases

 

Publicans showing streams are redistributing the coryrighted material. Showing it to an audience is broadcasting it. Showing an illegal stream in a pub is as illegal as hosting the illegal stream, the only difference is the number of viewers you showed the unlicensed content to, the more you deliver this illegal content to the bigger the crime obviously and the bigger the claim of losses for the owner of the material I'd imagine.

Essentially when a pub shows this illegal stream to punters they are using it to make profits, and that is a large legal no no with financial consequences no doubt.

 

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