Your kids and their friends sound like they’re woke af
The exercise of setting their own media agenda is probably a fruitful one. It’s something I’m all too familiar with. I’m a legit lad when it comes to software these days, I buy everything. I sometimes have youngsters ask me why I use Paint .NET instead of Photoshop.
“Because you have to pay for Photoshop”. It just doesn’t compute.
Didn’t when I was a nipper either. I used a combination of double decker ghetto blasters and my mate’s freeze cartridge for C64 stuff. Teenagers with Amigas would go to each other’s houses, armed with a cache of discs, X-Copying all night. We didn’t even pay for SNES or Megadrive games. Some of us had those on disk too. At Uni, everyone swapped PC wares. Took a lot more time back then, but the same mechanics were at play. Kids (and some adults too) don’t see copying as theft.
Exactly this.
Times are changing and business, in whatever field, has to keep up or implode.
There’s always going to be a buck to be made out of the Premier League. It’s down to the broadcasters/clubs to figure out what the modern day customer wants and adapt their business model to suit. The ball’s in their court and they need to act if they want continued success.
Streaming is not going away, all they can do it to reduce the need for it by offering a decent, affordable alternative
I suspect people see streaming even less as theft, even if the rights holders may vociferously disagree. There are also people savvy enough to know the final recipient of the cash, that might morally justify themselves along those lines.
Think you’re right though. Streaming ain’t going away, and is in many ways superior to the top whack Sky package, certainly in terms of choice. I started buying games for myself at around seventeen. I could finally afford it, and more importantly, the benefits of buying outweighed the inconvenience of not. Streaming can be bloody inconvenient. Those that use web sites are at risk of malware, everyone is at theoretical risk of prosecution, quality is variable as is reliability. There are people that would be willing to pay a fee to swerve all that stuff.
Don’t know how much room the PL has to manoeveure. The deals seem fairly rigid. The PL can’t feasibly offer legal 3PM streaming without utterly devaluing Match of the Day.