• @SpeedLimit55
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    Screw them, people use these sites because they do blackouts and regional deals and other nonsense then expect you to buy an expensive plus or ultra subscription or PPV.

    • McBinary
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      111 year ago

      It’s ridiculous that I can pay for MLB TV and the ONLY game I’m unable to watch is my local team…

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      If I want to watch every game I need to subscribe to 3 different services and pay something like $60/month, and I’m in an out of market area.

  • @[email protected]
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    361 year ago

    And we can totally trust them to never abuse this power or falsely accuse a legal site of infringement over materials they don’t even own, right? riiiiiiiiiiiiight

    (Looking at you, RIAA and MPAA… Can you see my sarcasm from there?)

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    311 year ago

    Just about every single digital service anymore that isn’t involved in piracy has definitely forgotten the silver rule:

    To stop piracy more effectively, you need to be more convenient than the pirates.

    Is it more convenient to pay whatever the price is for the individual sports subscriptions/packages/whatever, or is it more convenient to go to a single site to stream the games you want for free?

    It’s why Netflix, in the early days of their streaming platform, helped curb piracy by a sizeable amount. You could watch what you wanted when you wanted all on a single application/website without worrying about potentially downloading an infected file or worrying about ads.

      • @SheeEttin
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        And Steam for games. Gabe Newell himself said “Piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting anti-piracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”

        I like to watch hockey, but I’ve tried using the legit streaming sites. Usually, first I can’t find the damn game in their mishmash of content. Then when I find it, 80% of the time it never loads. It just sits there spinning. I can go to a pirate stream and start watching there, while the official one is still spinning. So I close the official one and watch the pirate stream.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          Only reason I stopped pirating hockey streams was because I was able to piggy back on my in laws shaw cable account to access sportsnet live. If I didn’t have access to that I would 100% pirate because just getting a legit sportsnet live account without a cable subscription doesn’t even give me access to my local teams games without also using a VPN. Fuck them and their bullshit blackouts.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      This. I literally pay for MLB.tv. Then they started blacking out the games even though I’m 400 miles away from the stadium. I start using a VPN, which works for a while, then it doesn’t. So I stop paying and pirate. They don’t want my money I guess

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    21 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The leagues claimed the change “would be a relatively modest and non-controversial update to the DMCA that could be included in the broader reforms being considered by Congress or could be addressed separately.”

    Unlike many other jurisdictions around the world, the US lacks a “site-blocking” regime whereby copyright owners may obtain no-fault injunctions requiring domestic Internet service providers to block websites that are primarily geared at infringing activity.

    A “site-blocking” regime, with appropriate safeguards to prevent abuse, would substantially facilitate all copyright owners’ ability to address piracy, including UFC’s.

    Website-blocking is bound to be a controversial topic, although the Federal Communications Commission’s now-repeated net neutrality rules only prohibited blocking of “lawful Internet traffic.”

    The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) said the current notice-and-takedown legal framework provides “an efficient way to expeditiously remove allegedly infringing content from Internet services, while fostering cooperation between relevant stakeholders.”

    The imposition of proactive enforcement obligations would be less effective, would inevitably negatively impact free speech and legitimate trade, and would introduce untold unintended consequences—digital services would be disincentivized from innovating and would do only what the law required, benefiting no one.


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