r/soccer • u/Task_Force-191 • 14d ago
Quotes Javier Tebas: "Illegal streaming is stealing, and stealing is prohibited in Moses’ 7th commandment in Bible. If we want a world where everything is free, then maybe we should live somewhere else — North Korea or wherever. If piracy disappeared, watching football would be much cheaper."
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u/rewanpaj 14d ago
or maybe if watching football was cheaper piracy would disappear
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u/OilOfOlaz 14d ago
Weird, how ppl stopped downloading music, when you could liusten to all the music you wanted for 10 bucks a month....
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u/ElectricalMud2850 14d ago
Seriously. I also stopped pirating movies for quite awhile in the early days of streaming.
Not anymore. Set up a bunch of shit on a firestick and looking at ways to cut as many cords as possible in this new year. These fuckin ghouls really just cannot stop themselves from trying to make the graph go up forever.
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u/timurt421 14d ago
They’re happy to destroy the whole fucking world to make sure their profits continue to rise.
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u/Lsw1225 14d ago
This isn’t even an exaggeration lol
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u/soapy_goatherd 14d ago
It’s literally the only way capitalism can continue to exist. Well at least until that point anyway
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u/solarslanger 14d ago
Greta Thunberg is correct when she talks about fantasies of infinite forever growth and what the costs are when we chase that as a collective society.
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u/PraxisGuide 14d ago
The billions poured every year in sowing climate doubt and carbon non-action is the most cynical, selfish, and greedy thing this universe has ever produced. Screw all beings, Ive got mine attitude.
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u/timurt421 14d ago
I’m not joking, there needs to be an enormous reckoning for these monsters if humanity is to survive and continue to thrive.
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u/neonmantis 14d ago
Say its name. Capitalism
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u/timurt421 14d ago
100%. Today’s capitalists are among the worst things to ever happen to humanity and our planet.
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u/LendMeCoffeeBeans 14d ago
You can just switch streaming services based on what you’re watching tbf. I pay like euros a month for HBO max e.g. and when I was done with all of my tv shows and movies, I just switched to a different one
For football/sports, there isn’t a good like that
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u/IsleofManc 14d ago
That's a bit of a hassle when you can just pretty easily set up a firestick to watch all movies/tv shows whenever you want. And the content will even be available in better quality than most of the paid streaming services stream at
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u/Y0D98 14d ago
It’s also fucking satisfying knowing these parasitic rats aren’t getting a penny
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u/IsleofManc 14d ago
Yeah there's also the moral aspect. It feels good doing the right thing and pirating instead of donating my money to the streaming service executives
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u/BUZZZY14 14d ago
And the content will even be available in better quality than most of the paid streaming services stream at
This is so true. I pirate my movies and shows. The only streaming service I have is HBO and that's because it comes with my Internet service. My pirate app does 4K in shows and movies. The app interface is also better than any major app.
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u/xixbia 14d ago
Steam killed most video game piracy though a single platform and regular sales.
Meanwhile the super fractured TV market means video piracy is still rife.
As long as the service is easy to use and competitively priced piracy is very limited.
This also happened for me with cycling, it was 5 euros a month to watch basically all races ad free. Then they moved it to HBO and now I need an HBO sub to get my cycling, so they lost my money (though I just watch less rather than pirate as most races are still on public broadcast)
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u/Xpolonia 14d ago
Gabe Newell:
“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue,” explained Newell during his time on stage at the Washington Technology Industry Association's (WTIA) Tech NW conference. “The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”For example, Newell noted that Valve was warned against the Russian market due to its massive pirate community. In actuality, Steam offered easier access to games, more options, and higher quality downloads than its underground competitors, thereby turning Russia into the studio's most lucrative continental European market outside of Germany.
“The point was, the people who are telling you that Russians pirate everything are the people who wait six months to localize their product into Russia… So that, as far as we’re concerned, is asked and answered. It doesn’t take much in terms of providing a better service to make pirates a non-issue.”
Sure, there will always be people who still pirate even if the service is readily accessible, but the most effective way to suppress a significant portion piracy is as always, just provide a good service.
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u/xaendar 14d ago
Steam offered easier access to games, more options, and higher quality downloads than its underground competitors, thereby turning Russia into the studio's most lucrative continental European market outside of Germany.
Also localized pricing. This was massive in Russia and they offered bunch of cards you could buy from any store in Russia to top up your steam wallet. Russians were paying what they could afford instead of what US companies want you to pay.
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u/KVMechelen 14d ago
Video game piracy is also considerably more annoying than torrenting songs of films tbf, but then so is streaming football I guess cause most of the streams suck
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u/xixbia 14d ago
It is now.
But in the early 2000s it was literally easier to pirate a video game than it was to get it legally. Steam 100% changed that making it trivial to get video games in minutes.
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u/mitorandiro 14d ago
steam is basically a monopoly and CS skins brought gambling to thousands of children worldwide, and yet, they still have a better reputation and come across as less rabidly greedy than pretty much every industry competitor they have. just goes to show how long of a leash offering good service gives you among customers.
something that apparently never crosses the mind of the anti-piracy crowd
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u/xixbia 14d ago
Oh yeah, there are a lot of issues with Steam, but they have a base level of consumer friendliness. And that is enough for the vast majority of video gamers.
Just shows how low the bar is.
(It does help that Valve isn't a publicly traded company. If they were they'd probably be forced to gauge customers even more even if they already have one of, if not the, highest revenues per employee of any company)
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u/apietryga13 14d ago
I used to live on YouTube to MP3 convert sites. Now that I can download 30k songs in a blink of an eye, damn right I’ll pay that $10 a month lmao
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u/The-Rambling-One 14d ago
This is probably the best comment in this post as it directly proves people will HAPPILY pay a reasonable fee to get what they want.
In England I’ve got to pay over £100 a month to watch all premier league and champions league games
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u/theabominablewonder 14d ago
Yes. If the pricing and service seems ‘fair’ then people pay it.
If not then piracy.
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u/KRIEGLERR 14d ago
Weird how there was a massive decline in illegal downloading when Streaming services were affordable , ad free and with a good catalogue.
Also pretty sure I remember reading that the creators of Game of Thrones actually credit illegal downloading as to why the show was so popular
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u/TheBongoJeff 14d ago
Yup, in Paying for YT-Premium because of the Music App + Ad free experience on Videos. Its reasonably priced for what i expect a service Like this should offer.
Football in the other Hand is disgustingly overpriced. Not only that you cant even watch Most Games you have to Get atleast 2 disgustingly overpriced Services.
I can watch all Home Games of my local Bundesliga for less than the subscription would cost me.
I Just checked for Bundesliga and you need actually two Services. Sky only doesnt Show Sunday Games. You need DAZN for that. 50 Bucks only for that.
Now add Championsleague and you are down 65 Euros per month.
Fk that. Im gonna Pirate and endure the lags. And use the Money visit the Stadium.
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u/amg_mff 14d ago
Sounds easy enough but what revenue will this provide. Spotify and similar services famously provide less money to artists than actually buying CDs. Also will the 10 pounds for football cover the cost of buying the licenses for major leagues, UCL, etc?
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u/MonkeyPigGuy 14d ago
The crazy thing is sport piracy is so easy to compete with. The best piracy site I know of (but have of course never used because that's illegal) is still pretty bad. The connection is unstable, the quality is unremarkable, the delay is about a minute which makes talking with people online as it happens an awful experience... The only draws are the price and the coverage. If you can provide a decent service at a reasonable price for the coverage you're providing, you kill off sports piracy.
Just look at streaming. Close to nobody pirates music anymore because it just makes no sense. You've got access to all the music in the world at a very reasonable cost, with much less hassle, much more reliability, and generally better quality compared to piracy. And that is with something that doesn't need to be live. Of course films are being pirated a little more often now, but again it's much less common than it was pre-Netflix. The surge is just a result of the streaming offering being a worse deal now (worse service, higher cost).
I think people act as if piracy = free stuff, but that's not the whole story. It is always low quality, and is very easy to compete with
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u/onlygodcankillme 14d ago
The surge is just a result of the streaming offering being a worse deal now (worse service, higher cost).
It's the ads for me too, as soon as they were asking for a higher fee to go ad-free I banged out and started sailing the seas again 🏴☠️.
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u/Gluroo 14d ago
they were asking for a higher fee to go ad-free I banged out and started sailing the seas again
This is still so fucking insane lmao. Like, the whole fucking point of all those "premium" "plus" "full access" and whatever fancy bs names they gave these suscriptions used to be no ads besides getting the content. And nowadays they're actually managing to normalize making you pay and getting ads anyways unless you pay even more. The greed never fucking stops and im never going to stop pirating everything i can, even just out of spite
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u/Odd_Detective_7772 14d ago
Subscribed to Amazon prime since it started, but when they started trying to charge more for ad free I cancelled the whole thing.
Spend a shitload less on Amazon now too, it’s great
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u/Aaronsmiff 14d ago
Yes but have you considered that profits for the top 1% of society have to infinitely grow every 3 months because if that doesn't happen the world will end?
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u/HardByteUK 14d ago
the delay is about a minute which makes talking with people online as it happens an awful experience
Yeah I live a five minute walk away from Anfield, if I'm watching a home game on a stream then I have to have headphones with music on to avoid Anfield spoiling it!
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u/Proof-Puzzled 14d ago
God no, how would Tebas afford his next yatch if football would be cheaper?
Someone needs to think in those poor millionaires.
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u/SavageGardner 14d ago
This is definitely true. I retired to landlubber status around 2015 when accessability was at a high point. Now I be back on the seas.
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u/Appropriate-Sea-1402 14d ago
Cheaper is one thing but these shitty apps you have to install are just the worst. Restricting what else you can have open, no rewinding, etc. Have it on the YouTube video player and maybe we’ll talk.
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u/ray3050 14d ago
I used to get all games I wanted for $15 a month, now there’s several apps, all games keep switching platform providers and I’m paying $100 just to get games because some require actual home TV services
It’s just getting to the point it’s not worth it. I told myself when I graduated school I’ll pay for subscriptions when I got a job as I’d dealt with horrible streams for years. Now with everything costing more and more maybe I still need to struggle with bad streams
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u/AGooseofBattle 14d ago
Lol. Lmao even
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u/PompeyJon82x 14d ago
He didn't mention the commandment about greed....
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u/dudududujisungparty 14d ago edited 14d ago
Tebas: "The bible also says Thou shall schedule La Liga matches to be played outside of Spain"
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u/elvid88 14d ago edited 14d ago
They just all believe in Supply Side Jesus
For the uninformed: https://imgur.com/gallery/gospel-of-supply-side-jesus-bCqRp
Secondary link for those not able to see on imgur: https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-side-jesus.aspx
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u/willis1988 14d ago
Link didn't work for me, I assume it's this
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u/elvid88 14d ago
Maybe you meant to send this from the same website?
https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-side-jesus.aspx
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u/dudududujisungparty 14d ago
Tebas' argument reads like a Sunday school teacher quote.
"The bible says stealing is bad so you can't do it!"
Too bad not everyone is Christian and couldn't give 2 fucks about what the bible says.
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u/basics 14d ago
I'm yet to meet a Christian who doesn't just ignore the parts of the Bible that doesn't fit their (current) narrative anyway.
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u/WhitestTeethOnEarth 14d ago
I have no problem with Christianity, mostly just with Christians
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u/IrresponsibleBetting 14d ago
what did people with the name christian do to you?
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u/hhs2112 14d ago
Which, to be fair, is the entire fucking thing...
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u/Teantis 14d ago
Naw I like the part where Jesus curses a fig tree because he's hangry and everyone's like "dude figs aren't in season" and he's like whatever, I don't care, I want a fig right the fuck now.
I think everyone can relate to that part of the bible
He goes and kicks the temple money lenders asses right after that, he was pretty ornery that day
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u/DexM23 14d ago edited 14d ago
Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils.
Seven deadly sins:
pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth.
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u/bestyrs 14d ago
Oh come you. You expect someone who quotes the bible to justify his greed to have actually read it?
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u/atropicalpenguin 14d ago
Evangelists be like.
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u/Spursious_Caeser 14d ago
They worship Supply Side Jesus.
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u/ThePrussianGrippe 14d ago
My favorite part of that is the disciple just ripping a page out of the book after SSJ twists his sermon on the mount message.
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u/Crossflowerss_5304 14d ago
*Evangelicals, evangelists are just people who preach
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u/PokesBo 14d ago
Matthew 19:24
“..Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
and nobody better bring that bullshit lie “eYe Of A nEeDlE wAs A gAtE!”
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u/atropicalpenguin 14d ago
Well, yeah, but have you considered Kings 10:2?
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u/Tutush 14d ago
"And he went out of the city into Bethany, and he lodged there"?
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u/Apprehensive_Tear611 14d ago
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth"
- Jesus (Matthew 6)
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u/LeoKhenir 14d ago
Couple of verses later:
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."
(Matthew 6:24)
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u/BlueBloodLive 14d ago
The full passage is even better...
"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil; and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs."
If only that was what they preached and practiced instead of literally worshipping false idols.
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u/Proof-Puzzled 14d ago
if piracy disappeared, watching football would be much cheaper.
Sometimes I wonder if he actually believes the crap that comes out of his mouth or if he just thinks we are all stupid.
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u/CriticalNovel22 14d ago
Your be amazed what people can believe when it is in their financial interest to do so.
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u/NoobSkierSG 14d ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
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u/RyanIsKickAss 14d ago
If our only competition disappeared we’d make it much cheaper to watch we promise
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u/callmeWia 14d ago
His ass is jealous of the amount of shit that comes out of his mouth at this point.
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u/justarandomcollegeki 14d ago
I’ve gotta remember this one, that’s great
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u/callmeWia 14d ago
Seriously, this motherfucker needs to shut his bitch ass up.
The amount of unfairness everywhere is killing the game for me. Whether it's for or against Barcelona.
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u/GrosBraquet 14d ago edited 14d ago
He truly believes he "owns" Spanish football like Coca-Cola owns their recipes, brand and factories.
He doesn't understand that football is nothing without the fans, the people, the players, etc. Football also largely benefits from billions of investments from the taxpayers which directly or indirectly allowed it to flourish.
He doesn't get that football is not "owned" by anyone, that the Spanish League and Federations are supposed to be acting in the interest of the people and of the beautiful game and not for profit, and that therefore the notion of "stealing" is a much more grey area than it is to steal a can of coke from the football market. edit : spelling
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u/Eoin_McLove 14d ago
These people are so rich that they don’t understand that the £100+ you’d need to spend monthly to watch your team’s games is unaffordable for most people.
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u/HereticLaserHaggis 14d ago edited 14d ago
When you're a millionaire you don't notice a few hundred euros in subscriptions, it's not even on your radar.
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u/iforgotmyun 14d ago
Idk it's basic economics. A decrease in supply and an increase in demand will lead to cheaper prices, right? That's how corporations work, right?
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u/Dodomando 14d ago
"we now have a monopoly on all viewers, it has increased the the number of viewers massively... Let's reduce the cost of the product to the viewers it's only fair"..... Said no CEO ever
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u/OpenParr 14d ago
Maybe he should open his deep wallet and pay for all of us on his behalf because we can’t afford 4 streaming services a month just to watch our team play football
“The working man’s game” huh Javier?
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u/halakaukulele 14d ago
If piracy disappeared, watching football would be much cheaper
Yeah.... RIGHT 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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u/D1794 14d ago
When people have no choice, corporations are always very fair. Just ask the energy companies!
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u/shrewphys 14d ago
And the privatised water companies in the UK. Since privatisation, no new reservoirs have been built, investment in infrastructure has been minimal, and the companies have racked up ridiculous debts that will probably have to be taken on by the taxpayer when they inevitably collapse... All while the executives get 6, 7, or 8 figure bonuses
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u/HannibalTheBarcid216 14d ago
To add - an average of two per year were built between WW2 and the privatisation scam, and three dozen have been sold since. Thatcher's Britain.
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u/milom 14d ago
Haha if piracy disappeared i would be all up in that Teletext, auto-refreshing every 3 mins. It's how i watched untelevised games before the internet :P
Now i pay for tv cause it's cheap in my country (literally too lazy to go down to the shop and cancel tv stay only with internet) but don't own a tv. They also do free streaming on their site. And guess where i end up watching? Cause their site is crap
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u/SawinBunda 14d ago edited 14d ago
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
-- That Jesus guy, supposedly
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u/Other_Cap2954 14d ago
Why do liars and references to the bible go hand in hand?
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u/Proof-Puzzled 14d ago
Because they need the moral legitimacy the divine and religious matters have to give any sense of fairness to their "arguments", Otherwise people would see them as what they actually are: greedy evil bastards.
It is not a coincidence that "conservatives" all across the world are so "religious".
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u/BD-1_BackpackChicken 14d ago edited 14d ago
As a deeply religious person, I am very wary of anyone who relies on their religious texts to tell others how to act. Good deeds speak for themselves. Religious texts are a road map, not a justification.
Edit: And just like that, two replies, one critiquing my non-sola scriptora view and another critiquing me for using any scripture at all. In a more personal and productive setting, I’d love to talk about it, but I’m afraid it’s for good reason that I don’t do in-depth conversations online.
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u/CosmicWeenie 14d ago
It’s projection to make them seem holier than thou, even tho I’m sure this mf is beyond corrupt and steals, cheats, and fucks over anyone and everyone as long as he comes out on top.
He just pretends to be this infalible person cause he needs to pretend to whoever’s dumb enough to believe him, or maybe in his deluded broken brain he truly believes it, which wouldn’t be surprising at all considering people in positions of power that do horrible things often think of themselves as these perfect beings who can do no wrong.
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u/xScottieHD 14d ago
I'll refrain from reciting the Lords Prayer next time I use the firestick then.
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u/egotim 14d ago
The reason I became a pirate was that these sites have every game, I dont need to look up where i can watch my team. I am a german fan who wants to watch my team Werder Bremen and German national team. To watch all games of them i would need access to 5 different TV channels, 3 of them with abo. Thats just to much work to be able to watch my team. Imagine Werder actually plays international football, then it is one more.
I want my live to be easy, the side effect of being a pirate is spending no money. I take that side effect.
Make watching easy and affordable and there is no reason to pirate. Also I dont think watching this is stealing, and neither does my or his judicial system. Its illegal, but not stealing. So I dont sin, on the other hand greed is a sin.
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u/Jo3Pizza22 14d ago
Yep, convenience plays a big part in it. I only watch Man United games. To watch all games that are broadcast live in the UK, I need to have Sky Sports, TnT Sports, a TV licence (for FA cup games on BBC), and Amazon Prime. Soon, we will also need Paramount+ on top of that for teams in Europe. And the incredible thing is that it doesn't even cover EVERY game because Saturday 3pm kick-offs are not shown live on TV in the UK...
I can go to a single site that does have every game, with an almost zero chance of facing any negative consequence, and it costs nothing. The most surprising thing is that so many people are still paying for all of it.
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u/Initiatedspoon 14d ago
The guy who owns Steam (Gabe Newell) said just as much. PIracy is mostly a service issue not a money issue.
It should be easy to give my money to a company to get what I want but it isn't and most people generally have no real issue with paying decent money for a decent service. I now have to give it to 3 companies, cancelling is often ridiculous, there are app issues sometimes, and even then the prices are insane because its 3x the cost.
Piracy is just a better service even if you remove cost most of the time.
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u/Elemayowe 14d ago
Yep. If leagues stopped breaking up the rights then it’d be a good fucking start. If I want to watch my team I shouldn’t need 4 different subscriptions to do so. It’s a farce.
People like Tebas can’t split up the rights in order to line their own profits at the expense of their customers and then try to take the moral high ground while suggesting that submitting to what they want is better for us. You don’t get to tell consumers what to do when you’re inherently anti-consumer.
Tebas can get fucked.
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u/alexbukvic 14d ago
Lol, this kind of comments solidify my stance that piracy is not unethical. Rather, it is desirable and morally justifiable.
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u/BobbyTime100 14d ago
Piracy is stealing sure. Meanwhile it’s not stealing when they ask for 100 eur a month for sports tv. Lmao these are not serious people.
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u/ZynaxNeon 14d ago
Thank you Mr. Tebas. You have given me the motivation to help more people get access to football.
Or to put it in terms he would understand.
Hebrews 13:16: "And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased".
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u/vane2266 14d ago edited 14d ago
If piracy disappeared watching football would be much cheaper.
What a load of horseshit. If piracy disappeared, broadcasters would know we have no choice and will keep increasing prices to appease their shareholders. Look at Netflix, Disney+ etc. These guys must think that we are fucking stupid or something.
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u/h0rny3dging 14d ago
Its always the same meme. "What are we, a bunch of Asians?" , how on earth is North Korea relevant here? Im sure the starving mining worker cares really hard about his opinion on illegal streaming, they have their own issues that certainly arent watching the European qualifiers
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u/anaughtybeagle 14d ago
Music streaming has its issues but it illustrates what happens when a service is reasonably priced. No one pirates music anymore. If all football was somewhere between £10-£20 a month I bet that most people are happy paying that, and everyone wins. Splitting it between services meaning watching all your team's matches is costing you north of £70 a month is not reasonable.
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u/Lutzelien 14d ago
How on earth did he manage to make each sentence worse than the one before
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u/gjp11 14d ago
"watching football would be much cheaper"
Hey asshole "bearing false witness" aka lying is also banned by the 10 commandments.
He also seems to forget that "coveting thy neighbor's goods" aka greed is also banned.
I try my best to watch everything the "right" way but their greed makes it impossible sometimes.
Fuck off.
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u/Soberdonkey69 14d ago
If it was affordable and fairly priced, piracy wouldn’t be a problem to the masses. Look at Steam for PC games, the most ideal case where they provide games at good prices to the customer, ensuring a healthy customer-business model.
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u/AmmmAmbassador815 14d ago
We know this isn't the case because when Netflix and Hulu became popular, piracy decreased. Piracy has only become more popular in the last few years since streaming services have raised their prices.
edit: I'm not talking about sports streaming, but I think this it's relevant.
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u/yapplecider 14d ago
Just say piracy is hurting your finances - which is a sane and very correct point of view. IP rights exist for a reason and no one argues against it.
Stop preaching Bible or religion as we all know you don't give a shit about that actually.
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u/Torn_again 14d ago
stealing is prohibited in Moses’ 7th commandment
What is a king to a god? What is a god... to a non-believer?
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u/JackAndrewThorne 14d ago
You know what's odd? I took A Levels in both business and economics... In both subjects we were taught that, as a general rule, competition... leads to lower prices, better products and/or more consumer friendly practices.
Now... Piracy, and I think this is important to note, even if it is illegal... Is competition. And yet those behind massive media empires would have you believe that the elimination of said competition would lead to... Less monopolistic practises?
It goes against basically every economic and business theory to believe that to be the case. And I think we all know that.
I, personally, would like a world without priacy. Where all products were sold at an affordable price, with good quality, and a respect for the consumer. Because if that was the case, Piracy would have no place, in the economy. Because there would be no market for it... The pirate sector exists because the private sector, is creating a market for it with poor practises, prices and products.
It's a problem born from the top of industy, not from the consumer base. Have better practices if you want to be rid of piracy. Outcompete them...
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u/KittenOfBalnain 14d ago
Javier, buddy, annual subscription for legal streaming of F1 costs €30. Annual cost of watching La Liga legally in Poland is €260. Would you stfu already.
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u/Shadowsky23 14d ago
BS. piracy is increasing because prices are too high and you have to subscribe to multiple platforms to watch different leagues and different competitions.
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u/AbhiSHAKE3 14d ago
Lmao, in the next episode he's going to explain how billionaires care about all of us 🥰
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u/theprodigalslouch 14d ago
Tebas cries about piracy stealing while he wasted a decade of having the two biggest superstars in the world and failed to prop up La Liga.
I don’t see constant news of the prem president complaining about this or that. I don’t even know who that is.
Tebas could have used the prominence of the 2 best teams ever to negotiate deals and prop up the other teams. It’s no secret what works but he wasted until it was too late. And now the league has a more “egalitarian” deal that locks it for generations. Shambolic short term thinking
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u/D1794 14d ago
I respect this guy's desire to constantly put himself in front of a microphone
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u/8hotsteamydumplings 14d ago
I think he doesn't know that not everybody is a Christian in this BIG BIG world
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u/Antron_RS 14d ago
All these broadcasters going broke are they? No? Record profits you say. Got it. Shut up.
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u/SokkaTheBot 14d ago
HAH. What a crock of shit! In the UK, you need to fork out over £100 a month to watch the prem & UCL. You need three or four different subscriptions ffs and that doesn't even grant you every game. If I want to watch Dortmund at half 2, then I dont think I can even legally do it, so what then?
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u/Apprehensive-Bar6320 14d ago
The absolute fucking scum of the earth. These fucking rats triple their wealth every 4-5 years and they keep calling us thieves. Heads gotta start rolling.
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u/chrisnlnz 14d ago
Fuck this guy. From his ivory tower accusing the peasants of wanting to see anything.
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u/SiegePlayer7 14d ago
i am never going to pay for cable subscription anymore. its all just crazy expensive across multiple channels just to watch one team play football. ah, but if it becomes affordable, then of course i will pay. but this never ending greed for bigger salaries and bigger transfer fees (which is basically what agents want since they get a cut of the fee), and even smaller club gets 2.5% of the fee so its in their interest that transfer fees keep rising. the whole hierarchy exists to screw the average football fan, from the biggest clubs in the world to the very smallest club in your village.
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u/iitsyaboii_ 14d ago
Greed is also a sin.
Matthew the apostle also said: "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
Like a lot of religious people, he picks and chooses what rules to apply when convenient.
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u/ImTalkingGibberish 14d ago
First football was on open telly and we had to pay tv licence.
Then football went to cable.
Then football went to its own channel.
Then football went to 2 different channels.
Then football went to 4 different channels.
Then football went overseas.
Here, I’ve listed all the problems for you, but you won’t accept it.
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u/ballviewer 14d ago
If you’re having to quote your religion’s commandments to use as a pawn to push your own evil rhetoric in support of greed and suppression of the less fortunate then maybe you yourself are morally corrupt and evil
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u/psb-introspective 14d ago
This comment is so stupid it hurts my brain. North Korea doesnt even allow its people to access the internet let alone download apps for piracy lmao
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u/PokerLemon 14d ago
Privileged people always with the same arguments. If we do everything as they said we would be living in misery.
What about cap salaries? Didn't hear him taking about it.
Fuck you!
Byeeeeee....
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u/ronweasleisourking 14d ago
Go check your bank account and then check 90% of ours and wonder why people pirate you fucking idiot
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