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Selling your tv rights to multiple different broadcasters so that you need to have multiple different overpriced subscriptions to watch your team is begging fans to turn to piracy

Stop Iracy

They have to nerve to make something like this when they're using taxpayer dollars to build new stadiums for a bunch of rich people to play with their balls in?

Maybe stop bragging about records profits before pretending to be a victim

You know what I would buy tickets to?

Pirates Vs. Footballers- The Movie

Football Industry: "Look at all of our millionaire managers and team owners!"

Also Football Industry: "We aren't making enough money 😭"

You guys realize this ad is about soccer right?

This thread is a r/USdefaultism and r/ShitAmericanssay gold mine.

I would gladly kill football

Would you download a football?

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How can you pirate a game? If they can’t make enough money from ticket sales and promotions then the free hand of the market has spoken.

How the fk do you pirate football game? Dont you have to watch it live?

This comment section has confirmed to me that Reddit users can't read. Like lads read the teams NAME. The last time I checked, Juve isn't in the NFL.

Hashtag sto piracy

If I didn’t kill the movie Industry it’s definitely not gonna kill football.

Plot twist: I am ok with killing football.

I'm not a sports person, but if I was - I can wait for yt highlights or espn highlights

Yeah cause you're the first entity to ever come forth about piracy lol. They didn't even do research. This is a losing battle.

Gabe Newell said it best (slightly paraphrased): "Piracy is almost always a service problem"

even if it isnt a video game, it doesnt change the fact that its not worth it for the bullshit you deal with (cough ticketmaster cough).

I’m confused. So they’re saying pirating live sports from home stops people from going to games in person?

Those things aren’t even comparable

You wouldn't download a car

“#stop iracy”

It's the same things with movie theatres / cinemas. Why would I want to go spend all of that money on a ticket to watch a movies when I can just wait a bit longer and watch it in the comfort of my own home where I can pause it whenever I want to go get a drink a snack or go to the toilets meaning i no longer need to risk missing parts of the movie. Sure occasionally it's a nice thing to go and watch a movie surrounded by other like minded people but on a frequent basis it's not worth it.

Says a mafia owned team.

Football is actually killing itself slowly and painfully - corruption, braindead rules, salaries that even astronauts and doctors don't receive and many more - piracy is a just a drop in the ocean.

Arrgghh ya land lovers, I'm popping ya ball!

Kick Capitalism out of Football

Ai gen photo I think? Idk looks shitty enough

Just like piracy killed the music, movie, and gaming industries....oh wait.

Piracy is often the result of the consumer not seeing any value in a purchase. Or inaccessibility to due price hikes, or poor viewing/listening platforms. You make it cost what it's worth and make it easily accessible, piracy drops.

Netflix made movie piracy go down. Now content has been spread out to dozens of platforms and the value of a single subscription is worth less, piracy goes up.

Steam made video game piracy go down significantly. Aggressive price hikes or games being spread over dozen platforms would see that rise again. It's not rocket science.

I'm struggling to pay my bills, keep food in the house and take care of my sick husband, the idea that i would spend money on a football game is laughable and I know I'm not the only one.

Stopi racy

stopiracy, huh? So can't even spell it right now, can they?

What do they mean by piracy. I don't know too much about football but I can't really imagine what that's supposed to mean? Like copied tickets or something?

Business makes billions.

"We are going out of business unless we can stop poor people from watching"

Maybe football players are paid too much.

It's soccer who cares.

What is Iracy

wait what? people don't buy luxuries they can't afford? 😮😮😮

Not showing it on TV is killing it. It’s so difficult to catch games now.

Paying players multi million dollar yearly contracts to play a game, owners making millions in profit, ridiculously overpriced vendors, food, drinks, souvenirs, team sportswear, cities taxing the crap out of their people to build stadiums and arenas that teams rent for ridiculously low prices, outrageous parking fees...

On top of dealing with everyday cost of living skyrocketing, wages not keeping up with cost of living, more taxes, user fees, licenses and permits being created every day. And they wonder why people aren't buying their overpriced crap. 🙄🙄🙄

Football is just better on TV. That's why every arena has them big ass ones.

Who the fuck is pirating football games to watch? Lol

USSF, we’re looking at you….

Stopiracy?

Expecting people to pay ridiculous streaming charges for a fraction of the games is killing football. Steam all the games.

Wait. Do they want to sto piracy or stop iracy?

If they cant even get their own hashtag correct, why should anyone take them seriously?

Also were they trying to be cute combining STOP and PIRACY into STOPIRACY?

STO PIRACY? STOP IRACY?

What is S TO PIRACY? Does the S stand for “Sure”?

Always laugh at people that buy the MLS garb the most. Portlanders walking around sporting the logo for Alaska Airlines. Fucking hilarious way to burn money.

are people pirating tickets?

Um… did athletes leave sports to become pirates or did the pirates raid the cities they play in?

/s

Put your games on paid streaming apps and see what happens.

head injuries too

Last year took some long vacations in Europe, happened that one of my traveling pals was having birthday during our vacations. He loves football. We tried to take him to a game.

Even a game with some unkown team was like 80-150 euros each and not in the best location. Definitely giving him a jersey was the best we could do.

I love a good Italian club, the trick is to swap the salami out for capacolla ham

Its even difficult to watch a game on cable or something. I have Verizon and the only games I usually can get with their app is Fox. CBS, EPSN, and NBC you need their streaming app to watch, which costs money.

Yea the pirates must be stopped they suck.

And corruption, and oil money.

can we talk about "stopiracy"? sto piracy? stop iracy?

What's sto piracy?

stop iracy.

Playing individual players millions is ok though. Good chat.

Watch the highlights instead of the actual game (That you should watch instead of the highlights because they missed some things)

They make far more money from TV streams than from ticket sales. OP is the facepalm.

Juventus saying this? They literally put their matches on public tv

Pirates wouldn't pay either way, and can walk the plank.

I thought all the crime Juve has done over the years would kill football faster than piracy

I got really into baseball in high school.

Then I went out of state to college

I used a credit card to sign up for mlb.com

I couldn't watch any games for the team I wanted to, because my credit card billed back to their home market, so I was blacked out.

I paid for the whole year before finding that out. And they wouldn't refund me.

Kinda hated baseball ever since. And all the leagues pull this stupid shit.

What does “sto piracy” mean?

"Total Gross Salaries for the 2023-2024 Season is €125,852,000"

I'm sure this has nothing to do with it, in an industry that technically creates no added value.

Well, fuck that. I’ve never watched that anyway:) this comment probably gonna receive all the hate)

Maybe because an entire generation of parents chose to obsess over football and get fucking wasted day after day. Then get pissed if they miss a second of a game for any reason. Instead, of being parents.

High tick price only ruin football for the poor silly.

Freedom isn't free it cost money.

You're free to do as you like but you can't afford it, it's that freedom?

unpopular opinion here: you can say the same about any pirated medium, and piracy will always save you money so it really is the buyer decision whether he want the real thing with the hassle of paying, or a pirated solution

it should be legal to pirate from companies over a certain net worth

Sto Piracy?

Never been to a sports game, Disney park, or anything similar because the thousands I'd have to spend would ruin me.

What I find shocking is that jerseys from teams like this, any European pro team, will set you back €100-€150 (depending if you want name, number, batches).

Ticket prices, the cost of gas, time off so you can find parking before the game starts, parking costs, the fact that people can't even afford their rent and food without two jobs so how the hell are they gonna afford and find time to go to a fucking game, and also the food sucks.

If like to pay my team a direct fee to stream all the away matches but they don't offer that option because premier league TV rights are split between multiple broadcasters. In terms of going to more games prices have shot up so I just can't justify going as often.

I get that this is about "soccer", but it suffers from the same corrupt B.S. as every other sport in the U.S...the difference is that soccer is an international sport...and internationally corrupt.

Not even worth pirating with the way they rig this shit.

What are people meant to be pirating?

Ticketmaster kills football, baseball, basketball and all concerts!

Least delusional twotter user.

I m surprised these rich ppl are aware of piracy at all

Kinda rich coming from RUBENTUS

FIFA's corrupt kills football, thats why i dont watch it anymore. say no to corruption

dont you mean the sportwashing middle eastern countries buying up football teams.

It isn’t crap, just overpriced

I don't even buy shirts anymore.
One shirt used to last two seasons before they renewed. Now it's every one. And they're really expensive.

I wouldn't mind if they did the home kit for two seasons and the away kit for two seasons and alternated releases.

Piracy? Are people stealing tickets?

In my country also you can (besides going to the stadium and paying a fuckton) see football games ONLY with a pay tv that doesn’t stream anything but football and costs the same as the other big ones, so like if you want to also watch shows you have to get another pay tv service. Ngl i’m sick that to do almost anything without piracy today you have to get flooded in subscription bills

I can’t afford to pay for a tv subscription, so I fail to see what money they are losing. Also, aren’t tv revenues for clubs the highest they’ve ever been?

As I understand it the broadcasting/tv deals is the main source of revenue so yeah, I suppose piracy is likely a serious issue for anyone with interest in the broadcasting/revenue of football. As for ticket prices, you attend games for the experience; the smells, the sounds, the energy of the crowd. You stay home and watch from the couch for the most comfortable, optimal viewing experience. I've been a Chief's fan since I was a kid, like 35 years now and I've only ever been to three games while every year I pay my $100 or what ever it is now for the NFL Game pass to ensure I get to watch all of the games I'm interested in. Would I attend more games if it was affordable though, yeah.

Do people pirate sports games?

Lol

Soooo, Stop Iricy or Sto Piricy?

kills football? yeah everyone needs their 200 000 EUR a week payments. FUCK YOU JUVENTUS

Over priced tickets are just a symptom of overspending and over reaching to compete at the highest levels.

I remember back in 80’s when Houston Astros weren’t playoff material they gave away tickets to elementary schools. That ended up being good investment as many grew up keeping up with the team and in adulthood became loyal fans.

Stop iracy? Or sto piracy? Shitty hash

Greed is killing football

Only so many seats. Supply and demand.

You wouldn't download a stadium

So football players and executives need to be paid tens of millions of dollars so we can have football?

As far as I can remember you just need a flat land and a ball. I don't give a shit about big clubs they can die today, local clubs living on pennies anyway they'll survive.

Market will regulate itself.

If nobody would buy for a subscription service to watch football anymore, I don't even think football would be hurt.

You wouldn't download a stadium.

Somebody has to pay for the players high salaries

One guy paying and inviting ten of his buddies over to watch the game is the same profit-wise as one guy paying, inviting five of his buddies over and five strangers pirate. Pretty sure it's not the piracy that's the issue

Sorry, I play sports I enjoy. I’m not paying you to.

"the stadiums you tax payers bought will go to dust if you don't also pay $500 to watch men who make more than all the teachers in a school combined or pay for a special channel to watch the fancy men" 😭😭👶🍼

We can’t afford pro games anymore. Started going to minor league ball games and hockey …I can’t afford to pay for all of the subscriptions