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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (9 children)

In Italy, the cost of subscription for streaming serie A soccer is 5% of the average net wage. And then you need to add the cost of broadband as it's only streamed, no TV broadcast.

A low wage worker would need to literally skip meals in order to watch those overpaid clowns kick a ball.

Buy less Lamborghinis, reduce the price, have enough servers to allow for a service that doesn't crash and stutter for the first half of the match, then maybe more people would stop paying the illegal IPTV services that are charging 1/10th of the legit service

As of now, illegal IPTV services are giving a better service (no stuttering for half match), a better experience (a m3u can work with older smart TVs without Android) for 90% less money. And sometimes even better support

Many people also pay for a VPN+a subscription to paramount plus USA and they can watch serie a from Italy at 50% off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wow... Talk about getting greedy.

Ain't working class slaves the back bone of sports ball games?

Why are they being priced out lol

Same thing in us... who cna afford NFL ticket lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What's fun is that a season ticket to watch home matches at the stadium costs around half of what you would pay to stream them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

See then you have the whole thing in the US where the local TV market, including streaming services, won't allow you to catch a game playing at a local stadium. It's called a blackout, I guess to encourage you to go in person. Basically those services only make sense if you don't follow a local team, or you watch a bunch of other games each week.

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