Illegal Streamers: Giles Clarke is Watching YOU!

[GIMH]

England news: Giles Clarke warns against internet piracy | England Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo

Latest rumours circulating are that cricsim will have a 24 hour blackout in protest at Clarke's attitude.

 

[Howe_zat]

Wondering when was the last time he paid to see a game of cricket

 

[sledger]

What a crock of ****.

That is the biggest danger to cricket, because they take money out of the game without commercial benefit to us.

lndeed. Poor you. More people watching the sport than ever before is clearly a disaster unless it somehow lines your pockets.

 

[Flem274*]

It's very telling he considers this is a greater threat than the many uncertainties surrounding the game today.

It also goes against all this talk of expanding the game. If you want to make yourr sport truly global, it has to be accessible. Many people can't afford a subscription to a pay TV channel or travel and ticket costs to test match venues.

Australia know the future, and streaming their domestic cricket online is a great start.

 

[uvelocity]

idiot. Need subscription service like motogp and nba

 

[Spikey]

eat a **** giles

 

[Burgey]

Remarkable that things like match fixing wouldn't register higher on his list of concerns.

 

[uvelocity]

Illegal Streamers

 

[Doctor]

Now I feel bad about streaming. Essentially, I'm stealing tens of dollars from those multimillionaires. You know what, **** it, I should just be thrown in jail. That's not even far enough, I should have an even harsher punishment than the Pakistani trio.

 

[ganeshran]

All of India's series are broadcast free on the internet. Best way to avoid piracy IMO.

 

[Daemon]

Tv subscription costs **** all in India anyways

 

[Tricia McMillan]

Being in the US now, I actually just had another look at Willow Cricket. I'd seen them around before and thought their prices were expensive, because I saw the price tag of $30 on various events and thought that was the price for the event. But I finally had a closer look and found out that $30 got you the entire Big Bash League, India's tour of Australia, Zimbabwe's tour of New Zealand, the ODI tri series, and even more. I kicked myself for not having bought that way back when they even showed New Zealand in Zimbabwe, and figured that $30 is a great deal even though I've missed half of what it originally included.

More broadcasters should do this, in my opinion. I don't pay for subscription TV because the stuff I would mostly watch is on premium channels, which on top of a base package, would end up costing me like $120 a month. To hell with that.

 

[Prince EWS]

It's a particularly stupid rant from Clarke because the majority of stream watchers do it in circumstances when they can't actually watch the cricket they're choosing to in their country at all. They don't do it to avoid getting Pay TV.

Furthermore, given the poor quality, reliability, accessibility etc of streams, I highly doubt many people who could afford Pay TV who were considering getting it for cricket purposes would think "nah, I'll just stream it online". I don't think the idea of these streams taking money out of the game that would actually manifest itself if these streams didn't exist is in any way based in reality.

 

[Prince EWS]

Wondering when was the last time he paid to see a game of cricket

Sometimes I wonder whether he actually watches cricket at all. The bloke is an unabashed **** with no real love for the game IMO.

 

[ganeshran]

Willow engages in all kinds of dirty tactics to arm twist customers into buying their packages. They subpoena IPs of users accessing streams and sends a legal notice which asks them to either pay for a $14 a month service or face legal action. Most users pay up to avoid the hassle

 

[Shri]

He can gagf.

 

[Shri]

And also does paid cricket streaming on the internet even exist atm? I don't think so. Now if such an option was available and people still used pirate streaming then it could be said it is a loss of revenue, but not in its current state. So in conclusion Clarke is a stupid piece of ****.

 

[Jono]

Remarkable that things like match fixing wouldn't register higher on his list of concerns.

So so true, and dwindling attendances.

Honestly it wasn't even worth mentioning this publicly. So **** from Clarke.

 

[benchmark00]

Illegal stream?

Never heard of them.

 

[Prince EWS]

Illegal stream?

Never heard of them.

Would be amusing if Clarke's rant just made more people aware of them.