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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.
Was he pirating because of blackouts though? That part isn't clear.
The concept alone is enough justification for me so i guess to each his own.
It's more than likely a problem of service, not price. Even if you have all the money in the world, bad service is bad and people's time and patience aren't infinite.
Huh? How does that even work? He's rich, but they're not making a custom app or server for him. He still has to deal with the same buggy nonsense as tour average Joe.
The fact that they're almost certainly not using different apps for different users. And the fact that there's no rich person tier for streaming services. They have no way or reason to distinguish between a rich person and an average Joe. It doesn't matter how much money you have when there's nothing to pay for.
no no no, you don’t understand! there's a secret "rich ppl netflix" that you can't get unless you pay $12,000 for it. the illuminati built it for bill clinton
Can we not shift this from the very important issue of how stupid this streaming situation is into the much less important, albeit still valid, "one rich athlete spends slightly less than his fair share in this one instance"—no one is defending this guy because he's rich, only because it's the irony of the situation
The more people who pirate, the better. It doesn't matter who as long as everyone is getting away with it equally
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!)
I feel that. Getting the official steam working, plus dealing with blackouts is a nightmare. I usually just listen to the game on the radio and check the box score every period on my phone. It's unbelievable how much the official stream costs compared to the low quality of the app. And still being subject to blackouts at that price is insane.
Not to mention that my team is basically a factory of sadness anyways, so once regular season is over there's not much for me to keep up with.
Maybe he just doesn't want to run DRM in his browser.
Maybe he wanted use a a least-friction streaming option.
Maybe he doesn't want the NFL to correlate and data broker his viewing activity.
Maybe he has some ethical qualm with the NFL or their streaming infrastructure choice.
Maybe "It's Free, it's for Me" was meant as in liberty and not price.
he knows the nfl is stealing the value he creates. he doesn't need to pay them
I'm so conflicted