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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.
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