Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
The football industry would be adjust, it would just mean wages dropped drastically. Football's not like the film industry which really only has one revenue stream and is majorly affected by piracy (and music, to a lesser extent as bands can still play live).

Not sure Sky would survive though if it had to honour the contracts.
The players would move abroad to other clubs, surely? The Chinese League is awash with cash, maybe that would become the major league, and our own league would be the equivalent of the Scottish League with one club (Man City because of their owners) dominating everything.

Sky will struggle to survive in a few years anyway, they are too far behind the legit TV Streaming curve and I suspect a big online company (like Netflix, but not Netflix) could be opening up an Internet Streaming element to the TV rights bidding next time around. Then, the cycle after that, I think that internet streaming rights will be of higher value and significance to the PL than the TV rights.

Netflix will replace Sky for TV shows and movies, maybe Amazon or some other company will replace Sky and BT for sports coverage.