• antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 minutes ago

    It’s simply a service problem. NFL offers great streaming for those abroad because they don’t have exclusive deals with networks. If you want to watch NFL you need numerous subscriptions, and hope you don’t live in the wrong area.

  • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club
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    14 minutes ago

    Usually I get pirates’ points, but I mean…this game was on freaking FOX. The dude’s a millionaire and can afford the most expensive streaming package in the world, and even if he couldn’t, Sling TV Blue is only $40/mo and has FOX on it.

    With all the popup ads, piracy for live television is actually MORE cumbersome and inconvenient than just paying for live television. If you’re out of market or the game is on a channel that’s obscure or only on something that charges like $70/mo, I’d understand this a bit more.

    • Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 hour ago

      Absolutely this. It speaks a lot that it’s easier for a millionaire to pirate the game than to get it legally. Make it easy and cheap and people will use it.

    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club
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      13 minutes ago

      The NFL should fine him the $40 it would have cost him to sign up for Sling TV Blue. Or the $20 the introductory first month should have cost him.

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        His owner gonna extract value in another way.

        These guys are deff elite rich but they are not owner class.

        And there is one thing a daddy hates the most, a bitch who is causing him problems and not making him money.

        Strapling young jock ia doing both here, daddy mad, daddy punish

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    3 hours ago

    "Seahawks CB Tariq Woolen was using MethStreams to watch today’s NFL games. He makes over $1 million a year,”

    I hate to sound like that guy but, I’m on the side of those who can’t afford the luxury of streaming, playing games as they’re released and vice versa.

    He can afford it.

    • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      Yeah but blackouts are bullshit. Exclusive rights to games are bullshit. Everything that’s been done in the name of profit above all else is bullshit. Everyone deserves to sail.

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      2 hours ago

      The last time I tried to use the official stream for a hockey game, I couldn’t get it to load. Not in the app, nor the browser, neither from my cable provider nor the network itself. I gave up and went back to the pirate stream, which played in one click. (It does freeze sometimes and the quality isn’t quite as good, but at least it plays!)