Saturday, July 28, 2018
Make something even more compelling for consumers
Make something even more compelling for consumers
This blog continues to be linked to by other websites following the two emails we received from lawyers representing the English Premier League, a selection of them can be seen here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
"Adam Bowie" (the final link) makes an interesting point about what the Premier League could do: "Does the FA sue YouTube? Or do they strike some deal with Google to allow goals to be played and get a stake in Google as a consequence like the record companies? I suspect that neither will be the case.
Of course, if they were really smart, theyd look at the example of Major League Baseball. The World Series is underway at the moment, and they let you watch a fastcast which is a short, neatly produced free video package. The highlights of last nights game - in which the Detroit Tigers tied the series up at 1-1 against the St Louis Cardinals - are already online. But if you want, theres a competitively priced package of full game streams available to buy. Sadly, while there is video on thefa.com, theres no Premier League action, relatively little England footage, and even the U21 stuff is out of date (no Germany v England from the other week - just the first leg).
Surely the best way of combatting pirates and video sites is to make something even more compelling available for consumers?"
As many of you may have noticed, some of the games we link to have been removed by Youtube. For example the Man Utd - Liverpool game from the weekend that we originally linked to was removed, yet on Youtube there are still a number of videos up of the same game.
Whilst we appreciate the individual attention being paid to us by the Premier League we would urge them and their lawyers to spend the fans money on greater issues affecting the game.
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Many thanks to Claudia for emailing us this cracking goal from the Belgian league last year.
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