<story><title>Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18662968/la-liga-app-illegal-soccer-streaming-fine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ankit219</author><text>One of those cases where both sides are in the mud. La Liga is struggling with piracy of games for long. They have been trying to make money of their product (football essentially features two of the greatest players to play the game in last 10 years, only one now) but struggle due to their whacky ideas and no care about fans. Sample this: The timings of games are as early as 12PM (spanish siesta is at 4PM) and as late as 11 PM local time. They host 10 rounds every week, most in different slots to get more eyeballs. They have acted in bad faith in a sense too. Spanish law requires one of those 10 games to be free to air. They made sure that game is one held on Friday or Monday at 11 PM (teams&amp;#x27; fans call it graveyard shift) and nothing on f2a tv on weekend.The ones listed are the ideas which made through while others like having one random game in US thankfully did not. Though, given their ineptitude, its a sure wonder how they managed to execute this so well.&lt;p&gt;Bars should not be streaming the games illegally either. But since the cable prices are too high, and nothing on free to air, they have to in order to attract crowds. There is no official streaming service - albeit not bundled with cable tv subscription - that people in these countries can make use of to watch games.&lt;p&gt;The path forward maybe what Formula1 did by introducing a streaming service which is not geo blocked. This way, I can watch a race at reasonable subscription from anywhere in the world. They also allow me a racer only feed, or the global feed, or a feed from a particular stand. I will definitely buy it if any official football league offers that too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shusson</author><text>&amp;gt; La Liga is struggling with piracy of games for long. They have been trying to make money of their product but struggle due to their whacky ideas and no care about fans.&lt;p&gt;What are you talking about, La Liga is making billions of dollars [1][2]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;bobbymcmahon&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;report-claims-that-spains-la-liga-is-responsible-for-generating-an-astonishing-17-9b-in-income&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.forbes.com&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;bobbymcmahon&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;report-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.laliga.es&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;laliga-grows-20-6-and-posts-revenue-of-e4-479-billion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.laliga.es&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;laliga-grows-20-6-and-posts-re...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Shazam-like technology used to identify bars illegally streaming soccer games</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18662968/la-liga-app-illegal-soccer-streaming-fine</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ankit219</author><text>One of those cases where both sides are in the mud. La Liga is struggling with piracy of games for long. They have been trying to make money of their product (football essentially features two of the greatest players to play the game in last 10 years, only one now) but struggle due to their whacky ideas and no care about fans. Sample this: The timings of games are as early as 12PM (spanish siesta is at 4PM) and as late as 11 PM local time. They host 10 rounds every week, most in different slots to get more eyeballs. They have acted in bad faith in a sense too. Spanish law requires one of those 10 games to be free to air. They made sure that game is one held on Friday or Monday at 11 PM (teams&amp;#x27; fans call it graveyard shift) and nothing on f2a tv on weekend.The ones listed are the ideas which made through while others like having one random game in US thankfully did not. Though, given their ineptitude, its a sure wonder how they managed to execute this so well.&lt;p&gt;Bars should not be streaming the games illegally either. But since the cable prices are too high, and nothing on free to air, they have to in order to attract crowds. There is no official streaming service - albeit not bundled with cable tv subscription - that people in these countries can make use of to watch games.&lt;p&gt;The path forward maybe what Formula1 did by introducing a streaming service which is not geo blocked. This way, I can watch a race at reasonable subscription from anywhere in the world. They also allow me a racer only feed, or the global feed, or a feed from a particular stand. I will definitely buy it if any official football league offers that too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guiomie</author><text>My key take away from your comment is F1 has non geo-fenced service. I just went on their website, and I&amp;#x27;m blown away. You can select a cockpit to stream, you have a bunch of geeky data, all while you can watch the GP in it&amp;#x27;s traditional way. I might get back into F1 just for this.</text></comment>