Five years ago this week… Eleven Sports was pioneering a dual technology stack split—one for premium live sports, and another for long-tail or lower-priority content. The CEO at the time, Luis Vicente, argued that this separation let the company deliver top-tier events like Champions League soccer matches with near-zero errors, while keeping costs under control for smaller leagues. The strategy also positioned Eleven as an early adopter of LCEVC, reducing encoding and CDN costs across hundreds of low-concurrency channels. Today, Eleven Sports continues to push the engineering-first philosophy, balancing OTT growth with cost efficiency in a market increasingly crowded with sports streaming challengers. ACE targets piracy apps on connected devices: The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) is cracking…