The Pirates vs The Premier League Podcast
1) Last Orders: Is Football's Love Affair with the Pub Over?
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2) Episode 5 - Sport’s Napster Moment
Twenty-five years ago illegal file-sharing platform Napster transformed the music industry. Though it was short-lived in its initial iteration, it showed there was a new model for music, and was the p...Show More
3) Episode 4 – The Premier League’s Dilemma
The Premier League is the world's most popular sports league, and is highly active in closing down, blocking and prosecuting people who pirate its broadcast content.Despite this, the Premier Leag...Show More
4) Episode 3 – Flawless, Absolutely Flawless
Ten days after the 2022/23 Premier League season finished, five men were sentenced to 30 years in prison for illegally broadcasting sport. The case, known as Operation Flawless, is believed to be the ...Show More
5) Episode 2 – Into the Criminal Underworld
Watching Premier League games through illegal broadcast streams has gone mainstream. But the average football fan doesn’t know the criminal underbelly that is working in the shadows to provide their f...Show More
6) Episode 1 – A Cold Thursday Night
Matt is sitting at home on a Thursday evening, 100 miles away from his beloved Villa Park, desperately trying to watch a game that isn’t being shown live on TV in the UK. And his tried and tested meth...Show More
7) Introducing The Pirates vs the Premier League
Watching live sport illegally has become second nature for millions of fans across the country, fuelled by the cost-of-living crisis and greater accessibility to content. Since January Matt Cutler a...Show More