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Sports Rights Meet the Uninvited Stream
· New York time
Illegal streaming links and unauthorized TV devices are undermining the sports industry's lucrative business model as enforcement intensifies, BBC analysis reports. The issue has broad significance for businesses that pay for the right to deliver live events. Sports rights depend on turning audience attention into authorized revenue. Piracy interrupts that exchange, while legitimate services still have to make access appealing and manageable. A stadium turnstile installed on the internet would simplify matters. The business challenge is less tidy: protecting valuable programming in a distribution system that keeps producing new doors.
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