UFC, NBA, NFL want bigger crackdown on pirated streams of live sports.
  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    28·
    1 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.

    • socsa@lemmy.ml
      6·
      1 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

      • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Awall@lemmy.ml
          3·
          1 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.