There's a box at the bottom of the forum (beside the fantasy football boxes) which has the links to the websites that show live football.

I've only included the websites that don't require registration.

Veetle requires an installation that only takes a few seconds, and it doesn't contain any malware therefore it can be recommended by your forum.

Proper legal LIVE Serie A matches!
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www.calcioitalia.co.uk wrote:

Proper legal LIVE Serie A matches!

 Fair enough

I've read the legalities of the four websites at the bottom of the forum and they claim that the live streaming links are to other websites so are therefore not doing anything illegal as they don't host the streams themselves. By that, this forum is only linking to those websites and therefore we are not liable for the content of other websites, be it legal or otherwise. It would be like C4 accidently putting illegal content or breaching copyright would not make this forum liable for linking to C4. If the four websites are illegal then they will be shut down, though they have been around a long time so it is unlikely.

Besides, the vast majority of the streaming links on those four websites at the bottom of the forum can be traced directly to free streaming on the TV stations themselves, those four websites just put them all on the one web page for convenience. I've spent the last month tracing back the embeds, object and direct links of the football games, and the majority trace back to the free official link, all others i could not find the source.

The links are solely for the convenience of the forum members.

However, after looking at the demo video on the calcioitalia.co.uk website, it certainly looks very good quality and i would recommend it as well and it's a good idea since Italian Football is not available on terrestial TV in the UK and other countries/kingdoms.

Insinuating that other websites are illegal because they show the games for free as opposed to $5.99 per game is not appreciated, if omnisport.tv want to challenge the hosting of the live streams i'm sure they will do so and get those websites shut down, until then, we will link to them just as a third party website until instructed to do so otherwise.

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Judging by the games on Omnisport, and the commentary on their highlights, I believe their coverage is exactly the same as on the betting sites, which are obviously legal.

I find it strange how one can be free, and one can cost $5.99 a game.
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I was probably a bit harsh there the other night, as CI were probably only having a bit of a poke. Sometimes i should take a chill-pill and stop over-reacting!

It would have been a bit less palatable if the word 'legal' had been in bold rather than the word 'live', non?
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Myles wrote:

I was probably a bit harsh there the other night, as CI were probably only having a bit of a poke. Sometimes i should take a chill-pill and stop over-reacting!

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You can watch Montenegro v Italy LIVE.
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tbh the omnisport quality is pretty good, but no where near the "HD Quality" they claim

I'm not sure I would pay the $5.99 to watch there over the betting websites which stream for free.

There are some games however that you can only watch on dodgy chinese feeds on sopcast, in those cases I would have to recommend paying the smallish fee on Omnicast.

when your online and the betting sites stream for free,your obviously going to choose that type of viewing over pay per view

Go away spammer. That link made my anti-virus (nod32) kick into action.

Plus i got a whole load of pop ups

No one click on toocoolamit's links

Veetle has the best quality but i've never seen Brescia on it.

{Myles: thread will be merged into the sticky thread on this subject when discussion is over}

Half-Time: Coppa Italia Final Lazio 1-1 Sampdoria
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http://www.footballstreaming.info (FSi) added to the banner at the bottom of the forum.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broad...ures-more-football-tv-rights.html

"ESPN has secured TV rights to show football from the German, Russian, Portuguese and Dutch top divisions, alongside the remainder of the US Major League Soccer season."

Unfortunately that doesn't bode well for the possibility of them picking up the Serie A rights. They've got rights to 5 live Budesliga games a week!

This link suggests Omnisport TV will have Serie A games again next season.  Hopefully the betting sites will also have that same coverage again.
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Rather annoying that Sky are happy to use Mourinho on their billboard adverts at the moment but aren't interested in Serie A coverage.

Having looked at the Bundesliga fixtures they have matches on Friday nights, Sat at 15:30 and Sun at 17:30 all CET?

Which could mean that ESPN have a space on a Sat & Sun night for Serie A matches? Let's hope so, as without ESPN picking up the TV rights the list of candidates to do so looks worryingly thin....

ESPN have confirmed they have the rights for Serie A next season. 3 live games a week. No news on whether JR will be presenting.

Anyone know if you can get it on freeview?