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Old 27-06-2008   #4
bigtee
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My System: Sky; Raven 90 with LNBs for 1W, 7E, 13E 16E and 19E; Technomate 1500 and Kathrein Analogue Receivers

Slippery slope .... as they say ... slippery slope.

I am reading the actual judgment (all 98 pages of it) of Mr. Justice Kitchin that refers the consolidated cases to the European Court at the moment. The way the lawyers have presented the case for the FAPL, an inexorable conclusion/follow up/corollary will be that it is simply unlawful to watch English premiership in the UK "with a decoder that gives unauthorised access".

Note the argument is leading to the end that to watch the Premiership in the UK with even a subscription (say a foreign subscription), but which is not with Sky, will be illegal. And that will not be restricted to pubs or publican ..................
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