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11 years for illegal streaming

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I hope they've got some of that 7mil stashed down the back of the sofa...
Five men who illegally streamed Premier League football matches to tens of thousands of people have been jailed.

At Derby Crown Court, the gang's "prime mover", Mark Gould, 36, was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65697595
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It's playing Whack a Mole, jail this gang and another two will take over. The 3.00pm kick off ban is a farce, Sky/BT's greed has made both the market and the means.
VPN's and no subscription is the way forward.........
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11 years is a crazy long sentence.

We lock people up for a decent stretch for relatively victimless crimes, yet let murderers, rapists and paedo’s off with lenient sentences.

The world’s gone mad.
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What's the point in sending someone to prison for something like this? Strip them of every penny that can be found, make them keep paying it back until they've made good.

I get how someone who has been nicking grandma's life savings deserves to do some time but this is stealing from a faceless corporation. f*** them.
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One of the people involved in the streaming gang was also convicted of multiple unrelated offences including possessing indecent child imagery. Another had hacked legitimate customers’ accounts to access and copy streams for them to take the blame if identified by authorities.

It's rare that criminals of this type commit a single crime (the money raised is often used by criminal gangs to fund drug deals, prostitution etc) so even if you conscience let's you sleep at night about their illegal streaming activities they got up to enough other stuff to make the world a nicer place without them roaming the streets.
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Hammer1966 wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 9:47 pm One of the people involved in the streaming gang was also convicted of multiple unrelated offences including possessing indecent child imagery.
That was quite convenient, wasn't it.
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Perhaps he should have used some of the proceeds to employ a cleaner judging by the state of that f***ing flat.
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Alan Pardew's Dad wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 6:04 pm
We lock people up for a decent stretch for relatively victimless crimes, yet let murderers, rapists and paedo’s off with lenient sentences.
Those murderers, rapists and paedos don't donate money to the conservative party, or have friends high up in government.

Well, most of them don't.
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Not sure what you mean Sendo... :eh:
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Ian Herbert of the Daily Mail thinks they deserve everything you get - and he's not that enamoured by those who use such services either, who he appears to believe are all lazy, obese alcoholics.
And while they sit on their fat backsides, crack open a few tins and help themselves, the revenue drains away from those who have taken the quality of sports broadcasting – TV and radio – to levels unimaginable 20 years ago.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footb ... s-50m.html
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Hey! I quit drinking at the end of the year!
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Up the Junction wrote: Wed May 31, 2023 6:42 pm Ian Herbert of the Daily Mail thinks they deserve everything you get - and he's not that enamoured by those who use such services either, who he appears to believe are all lazy, obese alcoholics.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footb ... s-50m.html
Professional sports journalists who look down on those who have to pay for their tickets/PL TV subs, are the worst sort of people.
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Up the Junction wrote: Wed May 31, 2023 6:42 pm Ian Herbert of the Daily Mail thinks they deserve everything you get - and he's not that enamoured by those who use such services either, who he appears to believe are all lazy, obese alcoholics.
I think he needs to sort his stereotypes out. It’s too expensive for what it is, they paid the PL too much and have to recoup it by rinsing fans.

Muppet. He is probably delighted at the anti-account sharing measures Netflix have introduced as well.
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Small point of order (and I can't believe I'm wandering anywhere near defending a Daily Mail journalist) but while he may be using a lazy stereotype he's not having a go at people who pay. In fact it's the complete opposite. They don't pay for what they consume which I guess is the point his lazy arse is trying to make.
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If this guy got 11 years for streaming and making a few million, can't wait to see what Baroness Mone is going to get for nicking 48 million and running out the country to avoid proscution, when they catch her!
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WHU Independent wrote: Wed May 31, 2023 8:58 pm If this guy got 11 years for streaming and making a few million, can't wait to see what Baroness Mone is going to get for nicking 48 million and running out the country to avoid proscution, when they catch her!
Place in government probably.
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Same thing happened back in the day with Napster right, took them a while to clock this is how people want to consume that media and Spotify came along.

The premier league and sky are well out of tune, now we have BT & Amazon in the mix you can spend north of £60 per month and still can’t watch all the games just the ones they choose to televise.

The market for an ‘online season ticket’ is there, a monthly sub model can work, the old theory of if we televise all the 3pm KO’s will stop all the lower league attendances is so old fashioned it’s unreal. I know there are many ‘football’ fans but I am a West Ham fan, I couldn’t give a rats arse about other clubs lower league or premier league it irks me i could be sat in Chicago or Dubai and watch us play but in the UK if I’m really lucky we might have live radio coverage.

The powers that be need to take heed there is an opportunity here.
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Is it an opportunity though Brickworks? Isn't it just another way the richest clubs will get even richer?

I reckon Man Utd, Liverpool and Man City would have more subscribers than the rest of the league put together. The SKY model works because it is, to a point, fair in its wealth distribution
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Brickworks Iron wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2023 8:55 pm Same thing happened back in the day with Napster right, took them a while to clock this is how people want to consume that media and Spotify came along.

The premier league and sky are well out of tune, now we have BT & Amazon in the mix you can spend north of £60 per month and still can’t watch all the games just the ones they choose to televise.

The market for an ‘online season ticket’ is there, a monthly sub model can work, the old theory of if we televise all the 3pm KO’s will stop all the lower league attendances is so old fashioned it’s unreal. I know there are many ‘football’ fans but I am a West Ham fan, I couldn’t give a rats arse about other clubs lower league or premier league it irks me i could be sat in Chicago or Dubai and watch us play but in the UK if I’m really lucky we might have live radio coverage.

The powers that be need to take heed there is an opportunity here.
This is spot on

If you offer all games for a club for say £50 a month (maybe more I'm not doing the maths) I bet you would get a tone of subscribers

You could reduce season tickets to reward people for going rather than price then out the game

People wouldn't stop going to lower league, how many go because they enjoy the day out? Or lower league fans ..

Give people what they want then you have no illegal market
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