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This is excellent news! Sky will be shaking in their boots now. Prosecutions to continue A Premier League spokesman said: "The Premier League looks forward to the free movement element of this case being clarified in the ECJ. "Publicans should not see this as an indication that the use of foreign satellite equipment in the UK has been legitimised, given that the Administrative Court in its December judgment found in favour of MPS in relation to copyright law. "Mrs Murphy’s conviction has not been overturned and still stands. "MPS will continue to investigate and take forward prosecutions in this area."   Of course the Premier League would say that to scaremonger, but ESTA will see to it that pubs will continue to fight to have their prosecutions on hold until the ECJ's hearing. I think this is just their way of throwing their dummies out of their cots because the court did not favour the case being denied a referral to the ECJ.

Great news! Then we will know one way or the other and sky will lose big time whatever the outcome.

COURT 58 Before MR JUSTICE KITCHIN Tuesday, 24 June 2008 At half past 10 Robed FOR JUDGMENT TRIAL LIST TLC 180/07 FA Premier League v QC Leisure & anr TLC 189/07 Same v Same I suppose if QC Leisure loses, it will be a very long article by the MA. Watch this space tomorrow.

I hope these cases gets referred to the ECJ for a final rulimg so that this issue can be resolved once and for all,.  

This is where domestic vs commercial viewing arguments come into it. With regards to foreign satellitte viewing in the UK, broadcasters currently say that they have no rights to broadcast their channels outside of their territories and neither domestic or commercial customers can subscribe to their broadcasts when they are in another country. Broadcasting companies may have a case towards commercial viewing because of possible infringement of showing programmes that viewers are not entitled to view. However, my argument is that when you are a private viewer of a subscribed satellite service no matter where it is, you are entitled to view the channels so long you are paying for the copyright to view it. Therefore it is my argument that the broadcasters contracts to restrict their channels to within their territories is an infringement of competition law and severral EU Directives. Whether my argument will win is yet to be ruled.