I'm back, hooray! I am well enough to actually manage to sit at my computer and read things and then comment on them which, after more than a week of being able to do pretty much nothing, feels like quite an achievement.
First up today is this, which was posted on Monday but I've just noticed, chief executive of the Premier League Richard Scudamore on piracy, or as he likes to call it, "Digital theft" - which is not only a spurious comparison, but also a downright lie, you'd have to imagine ,because if he did call it "digital theft" everyone he said it to would be like, "you mean piracy?" or "what? stealing money from banks using internet banking?" and he'd be endlessly looking like a twat.
He doesn't really mention football streaming too much - he bigs up the product and says no one would want to stream it if it wasn't any good - but his argument is really stupid elsewhere - take these two bits:
To bring it back to football, isn't the comparison here quite good, the Premier League should look for ways to make all games broadcastable rather than simply jealously guarding their rights, in the same way that TV should find ways to standardize release times so people don't need to download shows illegally - if your not providing a satisfactory service don't complain if people try to improve the service themselves.
And of course there's the obvious point that the Premier League is raking in record money so why doesn't he just shut his mouth anyway?
First up today is this, which was posted on Monday but I've just noticed, chief executive of the Premier League Richard Scudamore on piracy, or as he likes to call it, "Digital theft" - which is not only a spurious comparison, but also a downright lie, you'd have to imagine ,because if he did call it "digital theft" everyone he said it to would be like, "you mean piracy?" or "what? stealing money from banks using internet banking?" and he'd be endlessly looking like a twat.
He doesn't really mention football streaming too much - he bigs up the product and says no one would want to stream it if it wasn't any good - but his argument is really stupid elsewhere - take these two bits:
We are leaders in film, music, publishing, TV production and sports rights – British popular culture, sport and production values are viewed as among the best in the world.and
The bill is a start, but it needs to stay in good shape as it progresses because digital theft is reaching epidemic proportions and shows no signs of abating. Currently, it is estimated that more than 6 million people illegally fileshare regularly, and the UK leads the world in illegal downloads of TV programmes, with up to 25% of all online TV piracy taking place here. This is a statistic that should fill us with little pride.If we're leaders in TV why are so many TV shows downloaded illegally? This is not a premium thing, the TV shows are not downloaded because people begrudge paying for them - they are downloaded because they are shown first in the US (where they are made) and to see them first people download them before they come on TV. So he ruins his first point (we're at the forefront of TV production) with his second point (people like to watch US TV).
To bring it back to football, isn't the comparison here quite good, the Premier League should look for ways to make all games broadcastable rather than simply jealously guarding their rights, in the same way that TV should find ways to standardize release times so people don't need to download shows illegally - if your not providing a satisfactory service don't complain if people try to improve the service themselves.
And of course there's the obvious point that the Premier League is raking in record money so why doesn't he just shut his mouth anyway?
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