On: You need a paper licence to link to the Royal Mail website

[verdant]

I believe this is simply to protect them from unauthorized radio broadcasts of their games.

[RyanMcGreal → verdant]

Not to mention unauthorized church fundraiser TV viewings of their games.

[joe_the_user → verdant]

No, it's more that radio broadcasts are the only things that they think they can practically control via their "authorizing". If they thought they could effectively make money shaking down backyard barbecues, they would be "simply protecting themselves" from "unauthorized" backyard barbecues as well...

It's a "simple" protection racket...