• antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours 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.

    • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
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      4 hours ago

      This! I imagine this guy has every paid service this could have been on, but then you need to sleuth what it’s on. Easier to go to a one stop shop, which with sports in the US is gonna be pirate because the deals for who airs what is insane. Even if it was on Fox, it would take non-0 effort to determine that, open your Hulu with live TV or YouTube TV, maybe it was only available live and you failed to fake DVR it…

    • Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 hours 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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      6 hours 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.

        Strapping young jock is doing both here, daddy mad, daddy punish

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    6 hours 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.