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Football became popular because anybody with a TV set could watch the millionaires struggling in stadia funded with public taxes in a streaming funded with publ
by Condition1952 3y ago
Football became popular because anybody with a TV set could watch the millionaires struggling in stadia funded with public taxes in a streaming funded with public taxes
Now that they have a market of addicted followers, they’ve moved to a closed streaming system and they’re fighting against their former customers
- bibanez 3y agoAs a casual football fan I find it hard to stream some matches. I don't want to pay for another streaming service that I know I'm not going to use, but more and more of the matches aren't streamed on live tv...
- mcv 3y agoI wouldn't mind if these attempts at total monopolistic control ended up demoting football to the status of a normal sport again, instead of a global religion.
- toyg 3y ago> Football became popular because anybody with a TV set could watch the millionaires Come on now. Football stadia were already full before the tv was even invented, and not all stadia were built with public money. Is it now just another exploitative market? Yes. But let's not throw away the working-man's sport with the monopolistic-capitalist bathwater.