Leagues Trying to Take Down Illegal Sports Streams (frontofficesports.com)

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The leagues are trying to shut down illegal streams. Do you guys think this could be detrimental to free sports streaming? I really hope not.

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[-] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 year ago

It's not lost revenue if I was never going to pay for it in the first place.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

If I forget my ad blocker or anything, the moment I see an ad on YouTube and I see "ad x/3" with like a 30-60s timer on it I just close the tab and move on. Fuck ads.

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I was once installing Linux, and decided to open firefox in the live environment and watch a video on YT. Ads. Close tab. Reopen tab. Ads again. Fk it, installed Ublock Origin in the live environment and just watched the video. No ads.

[-] DudePluto@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I'm not subscribing to a whole service just so I can watch 3/4 of my team's games and no others. I want a service I can subscribe to and see all my team's games, and preferably all the games in one league. If it was multi-league that would be great, but I'd rather subscribe to one league at a time than subscribe to all leagues with randomly blacked out games.

Until then - and I know it's unlikely to ever happen - I won't be spending money on watching sports on tv