LaLiga offers 50 euros for reporting pubs showing pirated football: incentive or insult?
LaLiga will pay 50 euros to anyone who reports bars in Spain airing pirated football. The meagre reward has drawn mockery given football's millionaire salaries.
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El futbol español pays 50 euros for reporting pubs showing pirated football: the reward sparking outrage
El futbol español's announcement that it will reward anyone who reports bars airing football without a licence with 50 euros has triggered a flood of criticism. The figure, ridiculous compared with what the sport's leading figures earn — referees on salaries above 150,000 euros a year and assistant referees on around 70,000 — has been called "chicken feed" and "class contempt". The scheme invites a low-cost snitch operation: any customer can report their local bar in exchange for a 50-euro note.
Logistical doubts soon emerged. What happens if several people report the same venue? The unofficial answer is that only the first would get paid, opening the door to races to be the fastest informer. And in Spain, where bars are temples of social life, the idea of turning customers into the football employers' association's informants clashes with neighbourhood reality: nobody reports the joint where they have their coffee.
The initiative, already dismissed as "science fiction", paints a dystopian scenario in which horizontal surveillance is rewarded with loose change. Meanwhile, the footballers who star in the product keep collecting millions. El futbol español spends more on lawyers than on real incentives against piracy.
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El futbol español's announcement that it will reward anyone who reports bars airing football without a licence with 50 euros has triggered a flood of criticism. The figure, ridiculous compared with what the sport's leading figures earn — referees on salaries above 150,000 euros a year and assistant referees on around 70,000 — has been called "chicken feed" and "class contempt". The scheme invites a low-cost snitch operation: any customer can report their local bar in exchange for a 50-euro note.
Logistical doubts soon emerged. What happens if several people report the same venue? The unofficial answer is that only the first would get paid, opening the door to races to be the fastest informer. And in Spain, where bars are temples of social life, the idea of turning customers into the football employers' association's informants clashes with neighbourhood reality: nobody reports the joint where they have their coffee.
The initiative, already dismissed as "science fiction", paints a dystopian scenario in which horizontal surveillance is rewarded with loose change. Meanwhile, the footballers who star in the product keep collecting millions. El futbol español spends more on lawyers than on real incentives against piracy.
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