This is the new era of World Championship chess. ALL players MUST pay $15 to listen to the LIVE commentary. Any website which chooses to have their own commentators do LIVE commentary will face legal actions by AGON.
What is your take? Fair or no fair?
Here are some excerpts of the announcement:
The premium pay-per-view broadcast, that will cost $15 for the whole match….
Chess websites that accept the terms of using the official broadcast widget will decline to add their own commentary and analysis tools to the live representation of the moves…
Agon also reiterated today that it would take legal action against any website that broadcasts the live moves of the Championship games without taking the official broadcast widget.
Mr Merenzon said: “A website that wants to broadcast the live moves for free simply has to request the use of our official widget. But any rogue website that chooses to operate a pirate broadcast of the live moves will be subject to legal action…