Buncey having a rant about illegal streams

I used to sit up at 4am and watch the Hitman for £15...

Now i just duck the result and download for free at around 11am the following day.

 

With a Gig Ethernet pipe to a quality Cisco platform and a bog standard digital TV signal - 40,000 users should be doable no problem...More viewers - upgrade the IP link.

Of course - you'll need the IP connection to be mobile - this could get very expensive.

 

Me too if you can pull it off I'll happily cough up some cash.

 

Personally I think it will be a disaster. I doubt Froch v Taylor.com or whatever it is will get more than one man and his dog paying £10 let alone 40,000

 

I reckon 5000 subscribers at a tenner a pop would seeprofit - though small.
How much would the promoter/fighter want?

 

Boxing is eating itself!

£300, 000+ to defend an ubiquitous ABC "world title" is no longer seen as enough to put food in the mouth of a fighter?

Even the likes of Lacy v Calzaghe, just 3 years ago, made ITV. Yet the likes of Khan v T.Can and Froch v Taylor - now turn their nose up at their "paltry" offers. Amir Khan v ***en and Maccarinelli v Eliss - headlineing a PPV slot? The current situation, regarding boxing on British TV, is an absolute disgrace.

I don't blame or begrudge the boxers in particular, but the systems and regulations we have. Greed is killing the sport, and opening the door to the likes of UFC etc...

The TV market for boxing in the UK needs to be made more competitive. I'm not sure how that could be done mind. Perhaps in a sort of way the Premiership TV rights have been forced to be split up (that hasn't fully worked to plan though....).

Boxers earn and are entiled to a kings ransome, but greed is taking over the sport from top to bottom and screwing the market for every last penny it can squeeze. I guess illegal streams are the way of the customer answering back to that. Ask yourself this question: if a fight is on ITV, how many people wil be watching an illegal stream? To a lesser extent you can apply the same to Setanta, unless you have it on freeview of cause... but lets not get started on that one.

Illegal streaming simply highlights the fact that the demand and the supply of boxing are not running side by side.

 

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Theres also illegal streams that you pay for, some are very good quality.

 

I would imagine the promoter would want at least 100,000 people. Absolute no chance of that happening. 1,000 is my estimation, considering it has had very little publicity and even the majority of us on here aren't willing to purchase the fight.

 

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The problem is that the goalposts have moved on how people can aquire TV/ DVDs/ music and the "powers that be" need to adapt to that rather than just whinge about it.

 

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Just look in the sites forums for the user start dates, if the site has had happy members for 2 ro 3 years its a safe bet they're OK.

 

Me too. Especially having worked in the anti fraud department of a bank. I've seen way to many people get ripped off to take the risk.