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Since La Liga can't price discriminate easily

Sports broadcasts are massively price discriminated, however, which is probably the whole point of this bruhaha.

Pubs in the UK, for example, pay a much higher fee (something like 15'000£ a year[1]) than households (which I believe is in the 50Quid range a month) for the right to publicly broadcast the games.

It's probably such shenanigans (using a home subscription to show in the pub) that they're trying to fight. Not that I agree with the methods, mind you.

This, btw, explains why you see a beer glass in the corner of sports broadcasts in English pubs[2]. At least the ones that are properly licensed.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechno...

[2] https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2016/12/13/game-theory-ap...

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