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Originally Posted by Telly_
Does no one else agree that making exclusive rights for TV content illegal would solve and content problems over night, and also result in the consumer paying less due to genuine choice.
If no one could buy e3xclusive football rights then the auctions would be finished and set prices, or prices per customer would come in. Much better for us the consumer. It would also save £millions in stupid "investigations" that solve nothing.
So surely people should stop pressuring OFCOM to focus on Sky and point them to content rights owners and prevent them from having exclusive contracts. If the EPL wasn't so greedy they would let all TV channels buy all packs so all games were on several channels.
Its so obvious but everyone finds it easier to point everything at Sky forgetting content owners could quite easily let everyone have their content.
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I try not to get involved in the bickering that happens on here from time to time, but I do read most of it (in frustration) and I have to be honest and say this is possibly the most sensible thing I have seen you post. The problem being, SKY can and will pay for exclusive rights just because they can. It is just pure greed and a massive abuse of power from a certain unnamed media mogul. It is now well known how many prime ministers they have controlled and this will never be made illegal whilst Murdoch owns/runs SKY.
EPL only ask for lots of money because they know SKY will pay for it. If SKY stopped bidding for it, the price would drop MASSIVELY. Sky will continue to pay loads though, because they know they will make much more profit from the consumer! Again, if everyone who has sports stopped paying SKY for their sports, all the prices would drop too!!
I strongly agree with your point though, never has it been more relevant that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and whilst businesses can fleece us for content at inflated prices, they will continue to do so.
Sad times
