{"id":79121,"date":"2024-09-13T09:01:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T09:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=79121"},"modified":"2024-09-13T09:01:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T09:01:03","slug":"parasitic-iptv-piracy-is-killing-football-its-them-or-us-says-serie-a-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=79121","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Parasitic\u2019 IPTV Piracy is Killing Football, \u201cIt\u2019s Them or Us\u201d Says Serie A CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"piracy-kills-football\"<\/a>Supported by almost constant life-or-death messaging, one has to wonder whether Serie A\u2019s seemingly endless financial problems really are insurmountable. <\/p>\n

Yet for reasons that aren\u2019t easily understood, let alone explained, every week matches go ahead as planned. With decaying stadiums at some clubs and billions of euros in persistent overall debt, companies in other industries would\u2019ve stopped spending beyond their means long ago, or at least succumbed to financial pressure while refusing to do so.<\/p>\n

Serie A clubs have done neither, nor has the position changed on how to get finances back on track. In a recent interview with Serie A CEO Luigi De Siervo published by Il Mattino<\/a> (paywall), most of the league\u2019s problems have a habit of circling back to the usual suspect; rampant IPTV piracy.<\/p>\n

Cops and Robbers<\/h2>\n

Conflicting statements can have a tendency to unnerve creditors and if the launch of the Piracy Shield system earlier this year is any example, here\u2019s another big one. After months of heaping praise on what was billed as the savior of Italian football, today the goal posts of opinion appear to have shifted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like in \u2018Cops and Robbers,\u2019 we are always chasing,\u201d said De Siervo per Il Mattino\u2019s report. \u201cAs soon as we catch them, they move to another server.\u201d <\/p>\n

What that means in practical terms is unclear but after less than eight months of constantly tampering with Italy\u2019s DNS servers, current data reveals that 5,018 IP addresses and 16,523 domain names have already been blocked with no obviously positive results. <\/p>\n

The true scale of blocking in Italy is significantly higher. When the system began breaking down and agreed limits were exceeded recently, an unknown number of IP addresses and\/or domains were removed from the system so that new ones could be added at the start of the new season. At the same time, De Siervo could be found defending the cost of season tickets, describing the price as appropriate for such a high quality product. <\/p>\n

Take People\u2019s Money or Pirates Will<\/h2>\n

In the UK, meanwhile, Serie A fans were unable to buy whole season passes to watch Serie A on streaming platform \u2018One Football<\/a>.\u2019 Four games into the season, they still can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

They currently face the prospect of paying \u00a35 for each match rather than an up-front \u00a3100 commitment for the whole season. Some pirate services, meanwhile, will accept \u00a33 right now for an entire month of every conceivable channel, and in the time it takes to read this article, Serie A matches will be open for viewing. <\/p>\n

Instances like these may not be typical or overly numerous, but they are more damaging than some might expect. While hardcore pirates have no qualms about resorting to piracy, the same isn\u2019t true of those who ordinarily pay for content. <\/p>\n

Forbidden Fruit, Not Even Once<\/h2>\n

Failing to supply legal content can provide justification for piracy and if that persists long enough for former customers to hand over a relatively small sum for an annual pirate subscription, they\u2019re gone for at least a year.<\/p>\n

Serie A\u2019s strategy for converting pirates into customers seems unwavering. With assistance from the government and its prosecutors, Serie A believes that legal action is the only option, despite the inherent risks of treating all pirates the same, regardless of the circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a thread of Ariadne that connects the hacker [IPTV service] with the client\u2019s terminal: now we have to trace the end user and sanction him. The rules are there,\u201d De Siervo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA true fan does not watch a pirated match, because then he causes damage to his club. But it is a cultural issue, not linked to the price of season tickets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unwavering on Piracy, Unmovable on the Solution<\/h2>\n

The statement above is likely to have zero effect on hardcore pirates; they\u2019re regularly told they\u2019re going to prison for their habit and not even that moves the needle of deterrence. The big question is how those with a more sensitive disposition might react, along with those currently on the fence, considering their return to legal services.<\/p>\n

Pretending that the attraction of pirate IPTV services is always about better service would be a mistake. People who can afford to subscribe to legal services use them, just as much as those who cannot. Perhaps the former aren\u2019t true fans<\/em> while the latter desperately want to be fans but have been priced out by a sport that can\u2019t even manage its own money. But here we are and money has to come from somewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cModern football is maintained by selling matches. We are also attacking search engines that in some ways are complicit,\u201d De Siervo continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are, I repeat, 300 million euros of lost revenue, or 30 percent of the value of TV rights [lost to piracy]. Football is being killed like this, because there are no longer the patrons of the past who lose money, what comes in is spent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Serie A seems determined to reclaim this revenue by force and in many ways, targeting those who undermine a business at such scale should expect a significant response, especially if they don\u2019t jump to a new server quickly enough, or so the reporting goes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the football we deserve and this parasitic system that doesn\u2019t pay to watch matches must be blown up,\u201d De Siervo insists. \u201cOtherwise football will blow up. It\u2019s either them or us.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2018Us\u2019 has to mean more than Serie A and its clubs. If this war pans out as suggested, fighting on one front while starting a war with fans on another will not end well. Fans need to played onside, like yesterday.<\/p>\n

From: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\n

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