After years of focusing on the pirating of highlight clips and photos on the Web, the major professional sports leagues are finding that pirated feeds of live games are now common and becoming a menace to their businesses, especially at a time when leagues are trying to build their own businesses offering live games on the Internet for a subscription fee.
But if all Microsoft plans to do is roll out premium versions of its existing Internet services on a subscription basis, that's not going to be enough to make Internet domination plausible for the company.
Forty percent of all U.S. households with TV and/or broadband Internet use a subscription video on-demand service like Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu Plus, according to new data released by Nielsen on Wednesday.
The amount of cord-cutting could pick up over time, but networks like ESPN are limiting the amount of video they make available on the Internet without a subscription partly to prevent that.
But instead of selling a license to own that software, which requires the customer to install it on a server, the two companies provide access to their services over the Internet and customers pay on a subscription basis.
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Several prominent sports franchises are hoping that you will and are ramping up their Internet strategies to offer premium services on a subscription basis that go beyond the current menu of player and ticket information, bulletin boards and merchandise sales.
CBS All Access, for those unfamiliar, is the network's attempt at offering its TV programming on a subscription basis to internet users who don't have a pay TV subscription.
The privately owned Internet Access has just 34 employees, and its main product is software that performs office desktop functions, to be offered on a subscription basis over the Internet.
Subscription services, such as Spotify and Deezer, let people stream songs over the internet either for a subscription or free with adverts.
