Sure, I understand that.
I'm just tired of all these "global" announcements that really affect a tiny fraction of global users. Also very tired of all the arcane old licensing deals...
The Premier League offering in my country is very crappy and very limited - and the commentators are even crappier, the packaging sucks and it's really freaking expensive channel to get for the value you're getting - just for once, it would be so cool to be able to get the freedom to choose whatever value proposition you like, instead of being force fed by all these middlemen..
But yeah, like you said, there's too much money involved, so there's probably very little hope of it ever working like that .. and in the meanwhile I'll be watching the games at the local pub that "pirates" it off Sky (i.e. they have a subscription through proxy in UK). Oh well, for a second there I thought I'd have to buy a Xbox :-)