BT Sport

It isn't thieving, the same way providing any luxury good for a premium price isn't thievery. It's not a basic human right to watch football on TV you know.

If you already pay for the BT sports channel, they are putting the price up from £13.50 to £20 a month this season. I rang up pretending I wanted to cancel as a result and the guy on the other end immediately offered me another 12 months at £13.50, so definitely worth contacting them..!

Quoted from HighamMariner

You seriously think virgin and sky charging 60 quid a month isn't thieving?

Yeah, clearly Sky should charge less. After all, it must surely be really easy for them to recoup the £ 4,176,000,000 they have just paid for most of the Premiershite TV rights for the next 3 years.

Similarly, BT Sport should drop their prices right down to make it easier for them to recoup the £ 960,000,000 they have just paid for the rest of the Premiershite TV rights to go alongside the £ 897,000,000 paid for exclusive Chumps League coverage for the next few years.

I'm no fan of Murdoch's evil empire (or BT's attempts to compete with it), but when you consider the vast amounts of money they are spunking on TV rights, you an see why they need to charge a good amount for their service. If you avoid paying for it, you're still effectively stealing even if it is from massive media organisations.

Quoted from UTMariners

If you already pay for the BT sports channel, they are putting the price up from £13.50 to £20 a month this season. I rang up pretending I wanted to cancel as a result and the guy on the other end immediately offered me another 12 months at £13.50, so definitely worth contacting them..!

Thanks for mentioning this. I'll give it a try myself!

Quoted from UTMariners

If you already pay for the BT sports channel, they are putting the price up from £13.50 to £20 a month this season. I rang up pretending I wanted to cancel as a result and the guy on the other end immediately offered me another 12 months at £13.50, so definitely worth contacting them..!

Nice one cheers, worth a crack.

Highammariner you are a genius thanks for the info. Just downloaded kodi and phoenix and everything is on there you can wish for. Owe you a pint mate. Cheers  

I suppose I should be grateful that Mr Maringer didn't launch himself into one of his yawnsomely boring pro-labour, brainwashed student, guardian driven bollox.  One day I guess he'll realise that there are more opinions in the world than his, but..........don't hold your breath!

Since when has stealing been an opinion? A very confusing comment from a very confused poster.

Genuine question- how many of you feel uneasy giving your money to those corporations that continue to help widen the gap between the Premier League and everybody else (including the club you support), with the obscene amounts of money they pay for television rights?  

It's a free market. I don't pay for Sky Sports or BT Sports because I'm one of those nauseating people that would prefer to go to a nearby non league game if I don't watch Town, but when I do want to watch televised football I go to my local pub which has a subscription. There's many alternative options if you hate the widening gap and stealing doesn't make it okay. I genuinely don't care about streaming, but when people lie that it's to stop the 'big corporations' it's frustrating, they know that they use it as an excuse to get things for free and that It's purely for personal gain.