Will you be willing to chip in if someone offered to stream Chiefs games?

[Fritz88]

grandllama did us the greatest service last season. He put up some amazing Chiefs games streams. However, he can't this year because

Originally Posted by Vanilla Thunder

grandllama is not doing the stream this year. He doesn't have DTV anymore.

I asked a few people and they said they would be willing to try to cover as much of the DT and streaming costs as possible.

Originally Posted by beach tribe

Shit. I'll throw in if he'll put it up again.

Originally Posted by rocknrolla

I'm in.

This thread is trying to gauge how much we can cover (roughly). I'll PM grandllama and bring this thread to his attention. If he can't do it, please feel free to offer your great services to your CP brethren .

We will try to cover as much as we can of the costs.
I would also like to add that we would like it to be only accessible to CP members with special credentials so that it does not hog up the uploader's internet connection.

Here's what grandllama had to say about this. Anyone can help with setting it up?

Originally Posted by grandllama

My problem wasn't so much in affording Direct TV as it was in affording my house LOL

Right now I'm pretty much homeless.

I can setup the streams again, but somebody will have to feed the streams. Someone in KC with a video capture card and a Windows machine would be perfect and I can show them how to send it to my streaming servers.

Of course, somebody with ST and a windows machine with a video capture card would work too...

Basically you just upload the stream to my servers and they do all the work.

The games cost me about $20 each last year in bandwidth costs.

So, what do you think CP?

As for me, I am going to chip in 50 dollars.
kysirsoze is putting 20 dollars.
Pawnmower, 10 dollars.
Munkey, 10 dollars.
Loochy 20 dollars.
chief1okie not specified yet
Blazzin311 10 dollars
ElGringo, 20 dollars
lurker king, 25 dollars.

Can a mod please sticky this and make the poll public?

[EyePod]

Originally Posted by blazzin311

Well being as NFL Sunday ticket is now on PS3, I will no longer need to stream my Chiefs games this year. However, for the pas 5 or 6 years I've had to find a stream almost every Sunday like many of you....and like many of you last year I was able to enjoy this thanks to grandllama and all of his hard work. So because I understand the predicament that many of you are in, I'd gladly donate $10 to help out all of my CP brethren. I know it's not much, but hey it's something. Just let me know where and how to allocate the funds.

340 bucks is a lot of money. I don't even have cable. I can't bring myself to pay that much for the NFL....

I'd chip in 10 bucks for this though. The chat alone was awesome.

[EyePod]

Originally Posted by MatriculatingHank

This would be a major concern to me:

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairba...rts_arrest.php
Federal agents today arrested Bryan McCarthy, 32, for running a Web site that illegally livestreamed NFL games, pay-per-view fights and other sporting events.

The operator of channelsurfing.net was arrested at his Deer Park home without incident by officers of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

The feds say he had made more than $90,000 in profits from ads sold on the site since December 2005, and that the site had gotten 1.3 million hits since it was seized by the government on February 1.

"Today's arrest is another step forward in the ongoing investigation by New York HSI Agents into copyright infringement and theft of intellectual property rights," said James T. Hayes, special agent in charge of HSI in New York. "We will continue to investigate illegal streaming of programming on the Internet in an effort to preserve legitimate and creative business interests and deter others from engaging in online piracy."

"Bryan McCarthy allegedly sought to profit by intercepting and then streaming live sporting events, hiding behind the anonymity of the internet to make a quick buck through what is little more than high-tech thievery," said Preet Bhara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. "This arrest sends a clear message that this office, working with its partners at HSI, will vigorously protect valuable intellectual property rights through arrests and domain name seizures."

The feds said McCarthy's site showed "National Football League (NFL), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Hockey League (NHL), World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). All of these organizations hold the copyrights to the televised broadcasts of their respective sporting events."

He faces five years in prison.

The big part of that seems to be "seeking to profit." I don't think this situation is the same.

[QuikSsurfer]

Originally Posted by loochy

Those streams were fun last year. The quality was good and the chat room was fun. Count me in for at least $20.

Same. Put me down for a twenty twin twinnn ****er

[JoeyChuckles]

Status? 40 hours till game time.

[Thig Lyfe]

Originally Posted by The_Wiz

Status? 40 hours till game time.

i'm wonderin' meself

[Fritz88]

Originally Posted by The_Wiz

Status? 40 hours till game time.

Grandllama has no problem doing it. He, however, would need someone to help him out get the stream to his server. See OP for more details.

The prospects are very bleak. No one has stepped up yet.
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[Smed1065]

I have no HD card but I can supply the feed.

Sent PM and I am waiting to see. I have the game feed via slingbox from KC if it can help.

[Fritz88]

Originally Posted by Smed1065

I have no HD card but I can supply the feed.

Sent PM and I am waiting to see. I have the game feed via slingbox from KC if it can help.

Grandllama has been contacted. Thank you
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[Fritz88]

Fellas, there is light at the end of the tunnel.....
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[Deberg_1990]

I'll never understand why the NFL doesn't offer games ala carte each week for like $25 a game?

[Smed1065]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

I'll never understand why the NFL doesn't offer games ala carte each week for like $25 a game?

Bet they will soon. They can not win a fight via webs.

[FAX]

Hmmm. I'm really sorry to hear that Mr. (he who shall not be named) has no home. I would contribute money to some kind of stream thing, but it's like ... Sunday and kick-off is a mere 3 hours from now. Surely there's some sort of stream available from somewhere.

Please don't force me to watch the Tacks.

FAX

[Iowanian]

You dumbasses are going to get someone in trouble.



Clean the names out of your posts you shit eating dumbasses.

[FAX]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

You dumbasses are going to get someone in trouble.



Clean the names out of your posts you shit eating dumbasses.

Even if they were interested (which they probably wouldn't be on account of the fact that he is simply providing a completely non-profit, public service to the infirm and geographically challenged), I don't think they could find him since he has no address. He's off the grid, man.

However, I suppose a poster can't be too careful. Therefore, I shall remove Mr. ______'s name from my post and, should I be contacted by the authorities, I shall confess that I did it.

FAX

[burt]

Originally Posted by FAX

Even if they were interested (which they probably wouldn't be on account of the fact that he is simply providing a completely non-profit, public service to the infirm and geographically challenged), I don't think they could find him since he has no address. He's off the grid, man.

However, I suppose a poster can't be too careful. Therefore, I shall remove Mr. ______'s name from my post and, should I be contacted by the authorities, I shall confess that I did it.

FAX

I did it.