Looks like some of you will be needing a new site to stream games

[jjchieffan]

A segment of the online sports fan community mourned Monday as two popular websites known for pirating illegal streams of live sporting events displayed a message—ostensibly from their anonymous owner—that they would be “taking a break from live streaming.”

Visitors to sites called Methstreams and Crackstreams were instead encouraged to join an existing Discord community for further updates. In a sign of the sites’ following, more than 80,000 accounts were part of the Discord group—which has been around at least since 2022—as of Monday afternoon.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Dont care about the corporations

Care about the costs you are passing on to us virtuous righteous and honorable paying customers

No costs are getting passed on. Their product distribution costs are fixed and my consumption doesn't cause them any extra work or product consumption. Also, I wouldn't have bought Sunday Ticket anyway so it's not like they lost me as a customer. If it wasn't there as a free stream then I just wouldn't have watched.


They could easily make money off me if they offered a way to buy single games. I would gladly pay a reasonable price to watch a reliable stream of my favorite team's game - but they won't offer that for whatever reason.

[TheGuardian]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

Thanks, Dan.

Pretty sure nobody has claimed it's not stealing?

But then you'd have to pretend...
- The bakery makes billions dollars per year
- You have to watch commercials while you're eating the cinnamon roll. You can pick it up to go, but if you dine-in, you have to pay $50 for parking (which goes up annually) and hundreds of dollars to sit in the bakery. Beer is also $20 and it's the really cheap shit. You can however hang out in the parking lot for as long as you want and eat your own food beforehand.
- The bakery could just offer everything on the menu at a fair price, but you actually have to go to one specific store in town to order off the full menu at premium prices... and you literally have to order everything on the menu at that store.
-- And then at a second store, they'll have one or two items per week that you can order, but you have to pay an annual membership that's not related to the full menu store.
-- And then at a 3rd store, they have another menu item once per week, which is usually terrible, but sometimes you'll want to check out; but you'll need another annual membership.
-- And then there's a pop-up food truck that comes by every once in a while that generally has great menu items that you'll definitely want to buy. You have to buy a cheaper monthly membership to the food truck, even though they'll only show up once in a month.

...and at the end of the day, you're really just looking for the middle of one specific cinnamon roll, which sporadically rotates around 3 different memberships; and then rarely another menu item or two that could be on any given membership.
...however, given all the hassle, sometimes these menu items become available through other means, free in a dark alley. You still pay for the middle of the one specific cinnamon roll with multiple annual memberships so you don't miss anything, but sometimes another one comes along that's just not worth everything combined.



I know, tl;dr.... nuance is a bitch.

Yes tl;dr

[carcosa]

Originally Posted by jjchieffan

The opinions of good for nothing piece of shit people is of no importance to me whatsoever.

This is the sort of thing Jesus used to say all the time iirc

[Fishels]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Jesus says the games should be broadcast for free over the airwaves. Jesus would drive the pay channels out of the temple.

Jesus would also bring Jaylen Watson back and have Trent McDuffie sign a team-friendly deal.

This guy Bibles

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by loochy

No costs are getting passed on. Their product distribution costs are fixed and my consumption doesn't cause them any extra work or product consumption. Also, I wouldn't have bought Sunday Ticket anyway so it's not like they lost me as a customer. If it wasn't there as a free stream then I just wouldn't have watched.


They could easily make money off me if they offered a way to buy single games. I would gladly pay a reasonable price to watch a reliable stream of my favorite team's game - but they won't offer that for whatever reason.

This is the windmill I tilt at. I just want to go to the NFL web site and click "buy Chiefs games" for $20 per game or $100 for the season. I would gladly pay that and the money would go directly to put bread on the tables of the hungry NFL owners.

I've tried buying various packages when I've traveled, and every time I do, I get shut out because the package "only works in the USA" or "only works for games shown in your local market". I suspect that the NFL has some huge Gordian Knot of conflicting and overlapping contract agreements dating back to the Great Depression that is impossible to navigate and provide the customer with a straightforward and convenient product. They really need to fix that.

And by the way, why would I ever buy a package that "only works for games shown in your local market"? If it's shown in my local market, I'll just watch it on TV.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Fishels

This guy Bibles

I only know six of the Twelve Commandments, though.

[Chief Pagan]

The windmill I tilt at is I only want to deal with one company. I don't want to juggle different subscriptions even if they are only $5 a month or whatever.

If ESPN+ was an add on to YouTube TV, I would add it. No, I'm not going to sign up for your separate ESPN package, but at least I didn't have to watch WV beat KU, so there's that.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

The windmill I tilt at is I only want to deal with one company. I don't want to juggle different subscriptions even if they are only $5 a month or whatever.

If ESPN+ was an add on to YouTube TV, I would add it. No, I'm not going to sign up for your separate ESPN package, but at least I didn't have to watch WV beat KU, so there's that.

Y'know, that's another way to skin the cat on the tilted windmill. How about the NFL having a "unified subscription" where I can buy the package from the NFL, and then the various services feed into an NFL site that I log onto? I don't care who they sell their games to as long as I can make one purchase and use one login.

I guess maybe I care a little bit because they'll likely overcharge me, but it seems like there's a way this could be done.

[Otter]

test

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I dislike commercials as much as anyone, but if we didn't have commercials, would it change the game? They do a lot of TV timeouts that give the players a breather. Also, football naturally has breaks in the action, such as after kickoffs and punts or during official reviews, so if there were no commercials what would be on the TV during that time?

Oh, I wasn’t clear on that. I meant like watching a show on Comedy Central on YTTV. I understand the need and tolerate the commercials during the NFL games. But I watched a few episodes of The Office on YTTV once ands the commercials seemed to go on and on.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by BWillie

Dont care about the corporations

Care about the costs you are passing on to us virtuous righteous and honorable paying customers

Yes, that stream on crackstream really drives up your cost. And so confident in being incorrect. Some things never change.,

[IrishChief]

FB Streams is top notch

[Peter Gibbons]

Originally Posted by Jewish Rabbi

How does Jesus feel about illegal streams???

Jesus saves. Thus, I imagine him to be focused on soccer vs football. I suspect his coach puts him in the net.

[FlaChief58]

Originally Posted by Peter Gibbons

Jesus saves. Thus, I imagine him to be focused on soccer vs football. I suspect his coach puts him in the net.

They can't. The ball keeps going through his hands.

[Peter Gibbons]

Originally Posted by FlaChief58

They can't. The ball keeps going through his hands.

Nicely done! You don't get a lot of stigmata jokes these days!