Originally Posted by Turok  Very good news!
+i hope that the bar owners will win,against sky,this is against,the regelmentation,of a free market!
,everyone must have the same rights,here in europe,to watch all channels! |
Well they haven't won anything yet, so don't pop the cork on the bubbly.
This will certainly be an interesting one to monitor, as it is not as straightforward a case as would appear to be indicated above.
Firstly, this has very little to do with joseph public and the domestic viewing of European subscription satellite channels, people arguing on behalf of the publicans try and muddy the waters, by bringing us, the general public into the equation.
It is all about commercial use of the foreign satellite viewing cards sold for home viewers, on which most will have the condition that the card is not to be used for commercial use. They are in effect using a standard home subscription to show football to paying customers, regardless of where it comes from.
If the law comes out for the publicans and legitimises the use of foreign cards, overturning existing copyright agreements, then what will happen, is that they (the pubs) will be forced to pay proper commercial rates for the cards, which may or may not be significantly less than the BSkyB charges, but they certainly won't be the low prices of the foreign domestic cards.
This could have been all sorted out years ago, if the licensed trade organisations had got together and boycotted BSkyB for half a season, the prices would have come down very quickly.