But why should anyone have to break the law to watch the Mets?

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    My wife really needs to watch the Ravens game this weekend. From California, because not everyone is a fan of their regional team, and apparently if you are a fan of a faraway team, that means you are a super-fan and should be charged extra money.

    I, personally, am not a sports fan, so I’m happy to watch things at later times and dates than the very moment when they’re happening. But knowing what’s happening RIGHT NOW is important for those who are True Believers™

    Is there a fast way to surf the streemz like a gentleman of fortune, or do I need to pay my dues and do the research on my own?

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    Mark my words. It’s going to come to a point where you have to subscribe to your team each season to watch them play. They will throw in some bullshit extras like exclusive player interviews but it will all be a play to make you pay each season.

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      1 year ago

      You say this like it’s a bad thing. If I could get away with just paying for my one hockey team, instead of the legit, 3 fucking services you have to have currently to watch an entire season, I would do it on a heartbeat.

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        1 year ago

        3?? Lol, I only watch Hockey and look at this shit. I have to pay $250 CAD just to get NHL while I don’t give no fuck about anything else. Fuck that. I used to pay for NHLTV but now they don’t sell it in Canada anymore. So fuck’em.

        Oh, forgot, they also have blackouts on certain games/regions.

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      They actually would be nice, but my soccer team, all TV rights are owned by corps that want to sell you 200$/month packages, so my team can sell me access to watch their games NON LIVE. Meaning I can watch them… After they’ve been played which is bullshit.

      I wouldn’t mind paying 5$/month for my teams games only, but it’s not really an option, so pirating it is!

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    1 year ago

    I think the reddit streams pages (RIP /r/nbastreams, /r/soccerstreams, etc) were the peak of stream accessibility and quality for me. I have some go-to sites now, but those subreddits were so convenient and easy.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed, those subs were easily the best.

      A lot have moved into Discord, which makes these things even more difficult. In general discord servers are insular little clubs. They tend to have strange unique rules and require you to jump through so many hoops to get initiated.

      The Discord format is like plugging into a stream of consciousness, so doesn’t exactly lend itself to info-seeking like the forum format does.

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        1 year ago

        I fucking hate discord. I know they also created a NBA discord once the reddit crackdown happened ads and at the beginning you’d get stream links in the chat, but now even that is banned, so usually I hurt Google stream, but it’s a crapshoot

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      1 year ago

      Yes… But then again how can other people know… It kind of sucks, I would have never found some steam sites w/o others sharing… But I get what you mean.