They coming for the streams yet again

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

People don't see the victim in stealing digital material because it isn't tangible. Streaming video or pirating music is seen as "sticking it to the man" and fighting the "evil corporations." Lot of people have the mentality that they deserve or have the right to these things because of "reasons."

It's the same with sharing accounts outside of your immediate family for Netflix, Prime, etc..

I'm sure a lot of people simply don't care about stealing, like you alluded to... but I think a lot of people find the bullshit to be overly ridiculous and don't want to deal with it.

I didn't personally share music in college because "**** evil corporations", I did it because the industry was painfully slow to adjust from buying entire albums. Once I was able to buy a 99 cent song and the later use services like Pandora and Spotify, I did that instead.

I also don’t stream sports because I want to stick it to the NFL (however, also **** the NFL)... leagues still have ridiculously outdated blackout rules and on top of that, the solution to jacked up costs of cable was streaming services. Great! Oh, but now we'll force you to use 5 different streaming services and you still have to abide by our reerunedly outdated blackout policies... oh, and ESPN or other channels might just go away because contracts are up and **** the consumer.

I used to pay $90/month for tons of sports channels and loved it... but, now that I'm out of state and need Prime one weekend and YouTubeTV the next and Peacock the next.... yeah, I'll stream sometimes.

They can't have it both ways... either they work WITH consumers to make it easy to watch their stuff, or of course people will get pissed if they constantly feel ****ed over.

The NFL wants it both ways... "**** you, you're going to follow all these rules and pay all this money and will still be blacked out sometimes"... oh, why are you mad?

I WANT to give them money to watch every Chiefs game live.. **** them for jumping through so many hoops to make that possible.