Sky abandons old foreign satellite prosecutions

Blah blah, dropped existing cases, blah blah

Next year Sky and the FAPL will rip out the throats of any publicans showing non-Sky football, as they are now not attempting to prove wilful evasion, but a simple breach of Sky's 'copyright' in the UK.

Just waiting for the flood of "Told you it was legal" posts.

Circumvention isn't as fun as a 'hobby'.

Didn't even know it was possible for SKY/The FA to walk into a pub and say that an install is illegal. Whatever the route, those pictures have still been paid for and the FA still gets its share. Does wanton greed make something illegal? - we'll have to wait and see.

If SKY believe there has been a breach of copyright - why not approach the Service Provider and take them to court. Hehe, not likely: too much hard work and expense. Besides the Foreign Provider could turn the table and demand that SKY do something 'bout all those SKY boxes in Irish pubs all over Germany (for example).

This story is just as old and very similar to the AllOfMP3 saga: customer saves a buck by legal means then gets threatened with some spurious licensing crap.

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Stifles Yawn.

Pub football would like to make it clear that although cases have been won against 3pm football, it still remains cut and dry that unless you are in Wales or Northern Ireland then you are contravening Uefa article 48 What we are highlighting is that MPS and Sky are manipulating the truth with what is acceptable, carring it all in one basket and confusing people. We beleive that closed shop football for public performance should remain in the interest of the game. We are how ever 10000% adminant that you are breaking no law by using your system outside this period when you are using an EU member state broadcaster

Paid-for copyright infringement - an oxymoron if ever there was one. I rest my guffing M'Lord.

Mark, how do you manage to find so much spurious information, Mickypedia perhaps?

So if I own a pub and pay my mate Dave (he's paid for a subscription) for the use of his Sky box and card, that gives me the right to rebroadcast it?

On the rest of the other guff. So, its the FA alone now (not SKY or UEFA) (sic) who are re-grouping. To do what exactly? The original claim was that of dishonesty - what, exactly will change this next season?

They [SKY + whoever] won't make the same mistake? So, that what had previously been thrown out of court will suddenly - like a phoenix - become grounds for a different kind of case? A ruling on dish type and colour?

Pubfootball's website. Yup, I liked what I read. I'd like to think it was called affordable choice! Next.

I know what you are getting at; but let me simply say this - stop using the word rebroadcast. That's the stuff happening in Spain (see other thread).

We are talking about paying; albeit indirectly, to watch a LIVE audio visual service via a foreign service provider.

If others thought like you, we should, as a matter of urgency, start thinking about the thousands of EU pubs that have SKY in their bars, like I had. Yes, let's create a level-playing field.

But, you are right, nothing will come of that - because, you said so earlier and you know what's best.

Get over it. Stick to 'hobbying' satellites - that's totally legal.