Clampdown on TV 'Dodgy Boxes'

EUFA and FIFA complicit in this also, the rash of extra games at international level piled on top of European competitions extended to an additional contest, club World Cups, nations league, all requiring increased squads of ever more expensive players. $600 starting price for world cup matches, the burden of being fan of premier league club putting a severe strain on household incomes, where what was once a Saturday outing with a turnstile admission of the price of a few pints is now costing close to the weekly grocery bill to maintain home and away loyalty. And don't forget the parasitic betting industry leeching off the drained carcasses of today's football enthusiasts. I heard that the FIfa take for this World Cup cycle is over three billion, and has doubled nearly. That level of cyclic income growth is unsuitable when personal income increases teeter near zero. If it collapses, it will be with a big bang. They forget that vast numbers watching worldwide are still viewers, even if casually illicit ones and thats what drives advertising and interest and high ticket prices. Its understandable if fans are content to just participate in sport at the most basic local club level, because the higher level has become insane.

That's the pretence of commerce. We're here to serve your needs, or in the case of Sky, serve you a summons.

The people who got letters are not Sky customers. They are people who are robbing from Sky.

We do know what information Sky disclosed in the court case.

https://ww2.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/f974cd74-3185-4b52-b59a-d4beb6bf99c5/2025_IEHC_465.pdf/pdf#view=fitH

Its looking like the only way you can get in trouble here as an end user is admitting to it yourself. Then if you're flagged again for any reason Sky could have a slightly stronger case with the signed letter on record. Even thats a massive stretch.

Levelling up the media campaign slightly with these letters I'll give them that. They'll do well to top it. Its already in the realms of the ridiculous.

There was a case years ago when a legitimate subscriber in the UK used his mobile option to watch a match in a friends house, and Sky pursued him in the courts for effectively giving his friends 'a lick of his ice cream' letting them watch something only he was entitled to watch. "Sorry lads, I cant let you see this. I'll shout out the scores".

Using a sledge hammer to squash a fly, they've been so successful in disproportionate cases that their arrogance is at a peak.

The also sued a UK village publican who used her Greek pub sky box in the UK, but I think she won because she argued that the service should cost the same in the EU everywhere (pre brexit). The Greek pub sub was a fraction of the UK pub sub.

The pub owner failed in her appeals to the UK courts after 2006. She went to the European Court and won there in 2011. Interesting history from before Brexit.

https://www.5rb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Murphy-v-Media-Protection-Services-Admin-21-Dec-2007.pdf

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:62008CJ0403