cards without frontiers?

[THE_GUARDIAN]

From next Tuesday the television market could change face of football.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has announced the publication of what could be a new "Bosman ruling" means a decision on the appeal presented by the Premier League against the owner of an English pub that used to convey the Greek TV card games at his club.

On 3 February, the Advocate General of the Luxembourg Court, Juliane Kokott, issued the opinion - which generally directs the sentence - according to which EU law "does not prohibit the broadcast of football matches in the Premier League (English league) in public places, using foreign decoder cards."
If the Court of Justice will make his opinion the Advocate General, anyone (in any country, since the judgments of the Court of Luxembourg have value throughout the Union) can buy a card for football, where pay-TV these are cheaper and see all the games legally.

Currently, the football television rights are sold, taking into account the "territorial limits" within which they are enforced.

[THE_GUARDIAN]

VICTORY!

The decision of the Court of Justice today: sports fans can use cheaper foreign TV services to watch the games. This was established by the EU Court of Justice today, with a decision that could seriously change the way TV rights are sold around the world. The court determined that the current practice of selling TV rights on a territorial basis violates EU rules.

The case was brought by Karen Murphy, an Englishwoman of Portsmouth, fined for broadcasting the English Premier League matches through a decoder greek. BSkyB has almost all the rights to broadcast games in English football.

The court has spoken about the possibility that a holder can sell the TV rights for each country, a way that would maximize its value. British broadcasters, in fact, pay much more than those in other parts of Europe. BSkyB and ESPN pay a total figure of 2.75 billion dollars for the British TV rights, with a three-year contract that starts in 2010. The international rights have exceeded $ 1.5 billion.

The decision of the Court of Justice could overturn the modern game: who 'buy' matches in his country can see them all over the continent. As the law for Bosman players at the end of the contract.