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I don't know about other clubs but United cancelled the renewal deadline so you didn't have to pay for your season ticket but wouldn't lose it. And anyone who did pay they have promised refunds for any match played in a closed stadium or any match where they aren't given a ticket due to a partial open stadium. Admittedly United may be an outlier as apparently, Woodward was apparently pushing for the PPV price to be closer to £5 and also wanted season ticket holders to get it for free but all the other clubs wanted £15 and no free access so its possible the others have kept the renewal date and won't return the money but I would be surprised if they aren't all refunduing

 

You charge £10 a game to watch LEAGUE 2 football and with iFollows AWFUL production values. When you compare League 2 per match price for season tickets to the PL one £5 more and getting better coverage for it is hardly out sync with the EFL. The only people losing out are those who wouldn't go to matches anyway and they wouldn't have got to see the matches anyway if COVID wasn't happening.

And this is likely to help the likes of City out. First of all it makes the £10 a match iFollow fee that might put casual fans buying a game seem better value and it might offset some of the massive losses clubs are making which might make it a little easier for them to give to an EFL bailout

 

I remember in the earlier days of the Premier League they did something similar. You could buy a season ticket which would allow you to watch an extra 30 matches or so. It lasted a few seasons and then died a death.

 

That wasn’t actually the PL. The broadcasters were still having to hand over the same amount they did from people buying a single match. Sky and some of the cable companies offered a package as a loss leader to encourage sports package subscriptions (which you needed to take the deal up). NTL at once point were charging about £30 a season

Anyone running a Random VPN, especially one run by pirates is just asking for trouble. So many VPN's out there deploy malicious payloads or are gathering data on you thus not providing the protection they are supposed to be. If people are using a VPN they should make sure it’s a legit well respected one

 

I currently use Cyber Ghost which I've found to be one of the best out there and very cheap. I tend to sign up for 18 month deals then jump to a new one but I might just stick with this one very impressive.

 

Cyberghost were OK although they do keep logs which means in the event of a court order they would have to hand over all the data on you. They were sold however a couple of years ago to the Israeli firm Kape who used to be called Crossrider. Crossrider have a history of deploying low level malicious software with their apps and also doing browser hijacks

 

Maybe i will jump ship when the deal runs out then, lol.

 

Not really the same, hence why piracy is a civil case, not a criminal one. Shoplifting results in a store losing a product so they have actually lost something other than just a potential sale, piracy is a copy being made so the retailer has actually lost nothing tangible.

And that's where there is a bit of a grey area with piracy. Most pirated content that's consumed the consumer would not have bought the item so you make £0 from them but if they couldn't pirate you would still make £0. In fact that piracy can be a major benefit. For example, if I was to put together a top 10 movie list on it you would most likely find Donnie Darko, Before Sunrise and 500 Days of Summer. 3 movies that I didn't see in the cinema (DD as it got a really limited release that didn't air at my local cinema, Before Sunrise as the trailer made it seem like a soppy romantic movie and 500 Days of summer a cliched Rom-Com). I only ended up seeing them after recommendations but I wasn't about to buy a DVD copy for something I really didn't think I would enjoy so I pirated them. I've since bought DD on DVD, the Directors Cut DVD, the Bluray and then Digital, Before Sunrise I've bought the DVD, Bluray and digital as well as going to the cinema to watch the sequels before Sunset and before midnight which I've also bought on multiple formats AND with 500 Days I've bought on multiple formats AND bought the soundtrack. Piracy has hence generated a lot of money from me for the movies that I wouldn't have.

The problem is more when you get people who would buy it choose not to so as to save money. That's a smaller group but does actually seem to be rising as getting pirated content has got easier. Some of these PPV matches based on the average the PL released are selling less tickets than they would have sold if grounds were open despite being at least half the price if not more when really they should be selling more as travel distance and ground capacity isn't a restriction. So there are people who would normally have paid who are choosing not to but I highly doubt they aren't watching the match.