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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/football/p/952946/arsenal-v-psg-got-16-2m-illegal-stream-views-in-uk-after-not-being-free-to-air

Arsenal’s Champions League final defeat attracted more than 16.2m views of longer than 90 seconds on illegal streams in the UK, analysis conducted for the Guardian shows

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[–] SitD@lemy.lol 40 points 5 days ago

it's what happens whenever the wealth has been extracted successfully... no one can afford anything anymore

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 38 points 5 days ago

Good. Not a single part of this from the players, to the managers, to the owners, to the broadcast rights holders need money more than a regular working person does.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago

Something something piracy, something something service.

— Someone who does nothing yet stays long ahead of piracy-whiner corpos.

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 12 points 5 days ago

They don't give us enough for bread.
Now they priced out the circus.

[–] Noja@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And they still make a ton of money because all the ads are also visible in the free streams.

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

I saw ads for Irish companies directed at Irish citizens. Never even heard of 90% of them before so not sure how effective they were lol

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

Life, uh, found a way.

[–] SirIglooi@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is probably naive, but if they know about this, seemingly enough to trace ips and time spent streaming it, how come its so hard for them to block it?

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

You block one service, 10 more will appear. You cannot fight piracy, you can only migitate it.

[–] yopyop@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

In France we at least got the finale on free TV. But you had to pay to see any other match of the competition.

Oh no! Won't someone please think of the poor adults that already get paid millions to play a children's game.