Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content

Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Giooschi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The only options you have are:

  • Dazn Standard (45€/month, 35€/month if you pay for 12 months) to get access to all the SerieA matches (and a whole bunch of other sports nobody cares about)

  • Dazn Goal Pass (20€/month, 14€/month if you pay for 12 months) to get access to 3 SerieA matches per week which you don’t get to choose (and a bunch of other sports nobody cares about)

  • Sky (16€/month for the first 18 months, then whatever Sky wants after that) to get access to 3 SerieA matches per week which you don’t get to choose (and a bunch of other stuff nobody cares about)

  Most people care only about some specific matches, so your only option is Dazn.

  Dazn is also a very crappy service, it often has connectivity problems and also has ads. Fun fact, if you get a connection issue while watching a Dazn ad, it will restart.

  So, as usual, monopoly, high costs and crappy services drive piracy.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Important note: wages in Italy are VERY low. 45€/month is a significant expense.

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    🤮

    Imagine stuffing so much cash in the butt of a rich guy, only to look how other, most likely better earners than you, play against each others using a tiny ball.

    I don’t get sports fanatics…

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    • Giooschi@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t get sports fanatics…

      Most people just want to watch a match of their home town/favourite team maybe once a week. This is very moderate, what’s so bad about that? However in order to do that they either have to either spend an absurd amount of money to get access to all matches, or spend a bit less money to play lottery and hope the match they wanted to watch gets selected.

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How many of these soccer stadiums have been build with tax payer money?

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    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think all the big stadiums actually used for these big matches are privately built and owned?

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      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That would be unusual. Most sports stadiums in most major cities are heavily subsidized by the city/state (e.g. tax payers). I’d be surprised if even a small % were 100% privately funded.

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  • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wow, that’s way worse than I imagined. No wonder people watch illegal streams!

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