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English Premier Football League Sues YouTube
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC is reporting that the English Premier Football League has launched a lawsuit against YouTube and its owner Google, claiming unspecified damages. The league is sitting on high-profile content valued at $5.4 billion over the next 3 years in a recent series of auctions. This will be the second major suit against YouTube since Google's purchase."
FYI...get Cable or, better yet, Satellite. FSC has a ton of Premiership games live and they also replay games both in their entirety as well as with less-significant portions edited out. It's a bit tougher to catch Serie A, Bundesliga or La Liga games, but GolTV does show some of those games as well. DirecTV used to have a package similar to Sunday Ticket or Extra Innings that would allow subscribers to see almost all premiership games, though they don't offer it any more...instead they offer Setanta Sports Network which has all sorts of European sports.
However, as a Juve fan, you may want to go with Dish Network. For $12/mo you can get RAI International, which should give you a ton of Serie A games (which should include Juve, since they're moving back up after this season).
I can sympathize with Americans that can't get enough Premiership coverage, because I'm in the same boat (I've been a Liverpool fan for over 20 years), but the Premiership has made a reasonable effort to reach out to the American market. Considering just how much money is at stake in the European market alone, I don't think they're acting all that unreasonably.
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"
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Yes.. you have a right to copy all those things.
We have laws which restrict your rights for the benefit of society.
Society no longer sees restrictions on copying entertainment to be for its own benefit.
Why is this so hard to understand?
How we know is more important than what we know.
The NHL has its own channel on youtube, showing highlights of games, the top plays of the week and so forth.
There are lots of highlight videos from other sources as well, but no/ very few full games like there are for the premiership. Is there a link? Quite probably - why sit through a low-quality version of the full game when you can just as easily see all the interesting parts in the same quality much quicker?
The football authorities certainly aren't known for using a light touch on copyright matters. They shut down hundreds of fansites every year for the heinous crime of listing their team's fixtures for the coming season (http://www.zoopus.com/?page_id=13). Use of such highly privileged information as your team's upcoming opponents is £258 plus tax per team per season.