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.

[hometeam]

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[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

I enjoy these threads.

I have an OTA antenna and prime. But if there’s something I want to watch, I’ll find a way.

Nature finds, a way....

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

Nature finds, a way....

Yea, I kicked cable/satellite out of the house over a decade ago. Truth be told, I just don’t find many shows worth watching. So, I read way more then I did prior to giving cable the boot.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by TheGuardian

Hardly. I use all of those for shows and movies too.

I think being a bitch is having to find ways to steal shit because you can't afford to pay for it, but again, that's just me.

You bring about as much nuance to a discussion as Dan Campbell.


So, let's pretend most NFL games are like the Lions/49ers game, but once every couple months there's a game like the Lions/Vikings. Now, would you "play your starters" and pay for all those Lions/49ers games, just so you can watch the Lions/Vikings?

...shit, I can see how this analogy is doomed to confuse and anger you.

Ok, so let's pretend the choice to kick a FG or go for it on 4th and short in the first quarter is 95% of NFL games, but a chance to kick a FG in the 4th quarter that could put you up 2 scores is the game you really want to watch, so you really need to "kick that FG"...

...****.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Yea, I kicked cable/satellite out of the house over a decade ago. Truth be told, I just don’t find many shows worth watching. So, I read way more then I did prior to giving cable the boot.

I have noticed my FOMO is almost never as bad as I think it'll be whenever I end up dropping channels or whatever.... very similar to when I stopped watching every Chiefs game in the mid-'00 Herm years. You feel like you're abandoning your own kid or something, but if nothing else, there's usually an extended replay somewhere, if not a full replay.

Granted, I haven't dropped everything and went YTTV after dumping the assholes at Dish, but even that's now creeping up close to same cost.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

I have noticed my FOMO is almost never as bad as I think it'll be whenever I end up dropping channels or whatever.... very similar to when I stopped watching every Chiefs game in the mid-'00 Herm years. You feel like you're abandoning your own kid or something, but if nothing else, there's usually an extended replay somewhere, if not a full replay.

Granted, I haven't dropped everything and went YTTV after dumping the assholes at Dish, but even that's now creeping up close to same cost.

I have the option each month to kick in $10 to access a YTTV account. Also, I share my Prime account with 6 family members. They can watch TV and order useless Chinese made minutia.

I just will not pay for NFL content.

[TheGuardian]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

You bring about as much nuance to a discussion as Dan Campbell.


So, let's pretend most NFL games are like the Lions/49ers game, but once every couple months there's a game like the Lions/Vikings. Now, would you "play your starters" and pay for all those Lions/49ers games, just so you can watch the Lions/Vikings?

...shit, I can see how this analogy is doomed to confuse and anger you.

Ok, so let's pretend the choice to kick a FG or go for it on 4th and short in the first quarter is 95% of NFL games, but a chance to kick a FG in the 4th quarter that could put you up 2 scores is the game you really want to watch, so you really need to "kick that FG"...

...****.

I have one for you -

You really like cinnamon rolls. But ONLY the middle part.

So you don't want to pay for the Cinnamon rolls down at the bakery. Because you only like the middle part. After all, why should you have to pay for full price for a cinnamon roll when there's only this specific part YOU want?

So you go there and when they aren't looking, you take all of the centers of the cinnamon rolls and eat them.

Because again, it's not stealing since you're just taking part of it, and not all of it. Because you don't want the rest.

[Jewish Rabbi]

Originally Posted by TheGuardian

I have one for you -

You really like cinnamon rolls. But ONLY the middle part.

So you don't want to pay for the Cinnamon rolls down at the bakery. Because you only like the middle part. After all, why should you have to pay for full price for a cinnamon roll when there's only this specific part YOU want?

So you go there and when they aren't looking, you take all of the centers of the cinnamon rolls and eat them.

Because again, it's not stealing since you're just taking part of it, and not all of it. Because you don't want the rest.

When's the last time you've had a carb big guy?

[TheGuardian]

Originally Posted by Jewish Rabbi

When's the last time you've had a carb big guy?

Last night broham. A ton of penne pasta with chicken and then cinnamon rolls and cookies. Made for an easy analogy.

Diet to get most peeled started today so closed out the new year like a hog.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

I have the option each month to kick in $10 to access a YTTV account. Also, I share my Prime account with 6 family members. They can watch TV and order useless Chinese made minutia.

I just will not pay for NFL content.

I shared my parents' YTTV for a while and then they started cracking down on multiple logins in different locations (and didn't want to **** around with a VPN).

The thing in, so much of it for me is ShutUpAndTakeMyMoney.gif, but between the terrible blackout policies and Sunday Ticket being $300, and then watching 50% commercials once you do pay for YTTV, Prime, Peacock, etc.

****, just make it PPV and stop screwing all non-sports fans.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

I shared my parents' YTTV for a while and then they started cracking down on multiple logins in different locations (and didn't want to **** around with a VPN).

The thing in, so much of it for me is ShutUpAndTakeMyMoney.gif, but between the terrible blackout policies and Sunday Ticket being $300, and then watching 50% commercials once you do pay for YTTV, Prime, Peacock, etc.

****, just make it PPV and stop screwing all non-sports fans.

That’s what I’ve noticed when I watch. The commercials are ridiculous.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Mecca

Won't someone think of those poor corporations.

Dont care about the corporations

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

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

That’s what I’ve noticed when I watch. The commercials are ridiculous.

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?

[Mecca]

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

If you think the NFL would charge less I have bad news for you.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by TheGuardian

I have one for you -

You really like cinnamon rolls. But ONLY the middle part.

So you don't want to pay for the Cinnamon rolls down at the bakery. Because you only like the middle part. After all, why should you have to pay for full price for a cinnamon roll when there's only this specific part YOU want?

So you go there and when they aren't looking, you take all of the centers of the cinnamon rolls and eat them.

Because again, it's not stealing since you're just taking part of it, and not all of it. Because you don't want the rest.

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.