The Truth About Illegal Sports Streaming

[@Metal_Fingers.]

Playing the world's smallest violin, for the NBA,NFL and MLB

[@Lakerfan_2002]

Boxing is 100% only one negatively benefitting from this

[@future62]

If sports leagues made it as easy to watch sports as they do for gambling on them they wouldn't have this problem. Take down the paywalls and make it easy and cheap. The audience is there

[@paulmclaren1855]

make it cheaper to watch, grow audience numbers to increase sponsor rights values...and in turn increase revenue...

[@Pioneerfan12]

More viewership will not cause subscription prices to go down. These US sports leagues are all monopolies of their associated sport and have complete centralized control. For example, despite record breaking revenues each year for the NFL, it has never been more expensive to watch or attend an NFL game. Easier said than done, but piracy will not go away until sports leagues find a way to package value at an affordable rate. Especially with everyday working class fans struggling with inflation.

[@HowniGzu]

oh no those poor billionaires!!

[@RSanchez111]

If they stop blackouts on their official services, then I won't have to pirate the games I watch. It's that simple for me.

[@mattsullivan2176]

Ain’t nobody trynna pay $1000 a month 😂

[@That_was_me]

@@mattsullivan2176 🤣

[@SevenClips__]

no one pays such

[@stuffbenlikes]

I can't watch my local baseball and basketball teams anymore because they're behind a paywall. I can't afford to go to any of their games, either. So I guess I'm not a sports fan anymore, I can find cheaper entertainment.

[@camstephens5671]

As long as my local teams are blacked out I’m gonna do as I damn well please and sleep even better at night.

[@shadowninja6689]

I can't believe that blackouts are even still a thing. I thought that the FTC or some other government agency already outlawed it years ago?

[@RichHomieFort]

The fact that you need Peacock, Amazon Prime video etc just to watch all the matches/games. MJ said it best, "Fuck dem...subscriptions😂"

[@thaisoulsj]

I use illegal streams all the time. Not bothered one bit.....

[@jaysmith5105]

even if you buy the nfl package you STILL DONT get ALL the games. ILLEGAL STREAMING for life. poor ole rich millionaire athletes n billionaire owners. suck it

[@That_was_me]

Illegal sites>>>>>

[@j2times2006]

Considering what came out during the Sunday ticket lawsuit I don't feel the least bit bad for the NFL losing money to this kind of streaming.

[@yousendireview1089]

Even if it was $1 a month , I would rather pay $0 a month to watch it

[@shysgarage2405]

Here's a remedy to stop it. Put all events back on broadcast television... Problem solved... 🤯

[@sender5804]

wrong logic, if less viewers then prices will go down (less profit for owners and smaller salaries for players)

[@Wjk796]

Not surprised about LeBron, there’s a famous story he wouldn’t pay for international roaming when in Canada playing the Raptors.

[@Mango_B]

The market always speaks in the end. As long as salaries for athletes keep going up, the prices will go up. The question becomes: what are the masses willing to pay to be entertained?

[@colonialstraits1069]

I’m all about the leagues making money but I object to having to have Prime, Peacock, ESPN+ and an antenna just to follow my NFL team, over the course of a season. The NFL did this to itself.

[@dmandipper9102]

I’ve had NFL RedZone for 4 straight years no buffering no problems and all free!!! Power to the people 🏴‍☠️

[@clownkirkpatrick]

Maybe they should just make it affordable and easy to watch? Just an idea. These leagues already have billions or trillions of dollars, and are making it harder and harder to watch over time meanwhile many of us are struggling.

[@That_was_me]

Never watched a single cricket match in legal site 😭😭i ain't paying you guys $200 per year just to watch cricket match

[@JBaseball777]

The NFL is available on local airwaves via a $20 antenna so I use that plus my Prime subscription I already pay for and I get a majority of the NFL free since I'm in my local teams market and I get all of the big games. I live outside of my NBA team's region so I have NBA league pass. I'm a huge Orioles fan though and I can't get MASN outside of paying a fuck ton of money in cable, so I illegally stream that all the time. I'd pay like $15-20 a month for MASN it has not just baseball, but some other stuff I like for instance University of Richmond basketball and football games broadcast on it. RSNs need to evolve or they'll die

[@That_was_me]

Hd streamz>>>>

[@crazyrobot10]

6:30 I’m never sympathizing with Dana on this issue. $100 PPV without a subscription to ESPN +, 5 fights a card where you’re never guaranteed a good fight, and the lack of pay mid tier fighters. Fans are not paying $80-$100 for PPV if they can’t afford groceries.

[@sunnohh]

They don’t give a shit, except for Dana but they can’t do anything about it and count the viewers when selling ads…

[@TheYellowSnoman]

Players make over 10mil per year let alone 60mil is pure greed

[@hannahvickery4683]

it's practically impossible to legally watch the games you want to watch for a fair price - ESPN+, NFL network, etc don't help, because a game will end up on the SEC network which requires a totally different subscription. Total madness.

[@hannahvickery4683]

"There isn't a solution to this problem" --- Yes, there is. Provide a better product for a better price. This year, I got back into NFL and ACTIVELY WANTED to pay to watch games, but the options were abysmal.

[@ihatepie2630]

The problem is not piracy, the problem is the service. Fix the service, offer it to the consumer at a reasonable price, and the consumer will stop pirating. Gabe Newell said it best: Piracy is an issue of service, not price. Stop black out dates, stop multiple services, treat the consumer fair, and watch everyone return and the money poor in.

[@Allonmor]

Professional sport is widely known to be a weapon of mass control.. It performs fantastically at distraction also. The idea of giving them any of my hard earned is simply ridiculous.

[@abuibu]

These leagues should be grateful more people can watch their product, root for a team and maybe buy merch or even just engaging on their social media accounts and seeing the ads during games all increases their bottom line.

[@Dlyyzz]

That money number is grossly overestimated. Not all illegal stream viewers would pay anyway.

[@sender5804]

nba salaries gone mad

[@CP-cm2mt]

if sports broadcasts get the number of viewers they want or more at the price they currently market it, they will STILL raise the price stating customers will pay for it. It's not anyones fault but their own greed. Lower the price of these subscriptions or keep the endless loop going.

[@dennisp362]

What needs to change is prices to watch season should be cheaper. Ppv events need to go down to 10 bucks.

[@beachbuminca]

$500 to watch NFL or pay IPTV $20/month for everything? $100-150, or $20 for a specific game and I would have no problem. At the height of my TV subscriptions for Sunday Ticket and DirecTV with other streaming services was well over $300/month, it just wasn't worth the overall cost.

[@aliensyndrome4280]

You would pay $20 to watch one game on television?

[@Kyleterp1]

Our tax dollars are being used to fund these stadiums hosting these events.. these leagues can go to hell

[@brianvanwyk9425]

Make streaming sports free and sell ads. Then there would be no reason at all to pirate.

[@HelloWorld-ts7xb]

Can any one tell me how can see F1 for free

[@lookdoug1516]

Then I see uncle Dana bet $100,000 per blackjack hand, suddenly I don’t feel so guilty

[@jeffcole75]

I used to pirate wwe but they made it affordable, now I just do it for ufc and football games I can't find

[@Lakerfan_2002]

Streameast does nothing vs. actual broadcast TV NBA gon use this excuse forever

[@Jctheballer24]

We need the streaming sites though

[@astrladam4392]

Oh boy this guy.

[@upallnite3164]

I don't hear you talking about all the Taxpayer money that goes to Owners of the teams for Stadiums. Taxpayers are told by the politician that we will benefit when we give tax breaks. Funny how the savings never make it to the taxpayers. Greedy "Sports industrial Complex" is now learning that Viewers have had enough, after the Lock downs peeps have learned what they can live w/o that we only need the "essential" things. Sports is not one of them. 🤣

[@thopp9761]

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