Originally published at: https://troypoint.com/pirate-iptv-vs-italian-football/
Serie A CEO Luigi De Siervo’s recent comments about the state of Italian football are both alarming and familiar. Piracy, particularly IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), continues to plague the league, and De Siervo insists that coercive action is the only way to solve the problem. His latest statement paints a bleak picture: “Football is being…
perhaps if they didnt pay the players so much maybe prices to watch football would come down
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Italy had no problems when it was the best league in the world. But as tv money (the real reason for massive gaps opening up in world football) flowed into England and Spain, Serie A struggled to keep up. Wages skyrocketed, tv money went wild until a lot of end users, ie the customer, said enough is enough. Blaming iptv users for their own financial issues is lazy and incorrect. Exaggerating the amount of money being “lost” to iptv users is lazy and misleading. And once you take action to stop big Bob and wee wally from illegally streaming who will you have left to blame for the financial issues and huge debts that football clubs across Europe have piled up over the last two decades?
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