House of cards?

[trousers]

Would be just our luck for the bottom to fall out of the Sky TV money if/when we get back to the Premier League. Or is this just a storm in a tea cup...?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17150054

 

24 February 2012 Last updated at 10:58

Pub TV football landlady Karen Murphy wins in court

 

A pub landlady has won her court fight with the English Premier League over using a Greek TV decoder to screen games.

Karen Murphy has paid nearly £8,000 in fines and costs for using the cheaper decoder in her Portsmouth pub to bypass controls over match screening.

But she took her case to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

It found partly in her favour, and now the High Court in London has also found in her favour.

Ms Murphy has spent six years fighting a prosecution for showing live football at the Red White and Blue pub without a Sky subscription.

[stu0x]

Relatively old news. The european rights are small potatoes compared to the UK ones. Sky will simply buy those as well, and get round the issue contractually.

[trousers]

Relatively old news.

 

Yep, she (partly) won her case in the European court a while back, but today's development is that this has now been ratified by the High Court over here. Adds another layer of significance I would have thought?

[stu0x]

Well not really, as the solution for Sky is perfectly legal, probably even (slightly), profitable, and neatly sidesteps the issue.

 

Who'd have thought a court that takes years to issue judgements on even the most fundamentally basic cases would be so out of step...