More sports around the world should take a cue from Major League Baseball. For $100 you can get an unlimited year subscription to streaming video of all games (with blackout restrictions) and audio of all games (no restrictions). It’s a great bargain, and I’m glad to pay the money to watch games I’d otherwise miss out on.

Of course, getting football torrents is nice, too. Still, I only use torrents for things I can’t otherwise get online for cheap, such as footy.

don’t forget Canada! It’s called soccer there, too. :)

The way forward !

I hope that’s not true. If it was the human race would cease to exist. I don’t know a single teenager in this generation who hasn’t at least downloaded a one song illegally.

:) The apocalypse is coming

Roze
http://www.28chan.org/apstdt/

if every satellite user in the country obtained *free = no cost* universal decoders then the market would be truly open. precisely analogous of the current situation with bittorrent and the music industry where you can choose between free digital content (everything is available) and paid value added services

e.g. i pay $100/month for my Sky+ HD and also use bittorrent. i have choice

PS. when i was a kid the thought of spending $100/month for your tv was ludicrous … today we are spending more per head, give more money to the media cartels, than at any other time in history. but we have lost the rights to see our national soccer team free on tv

http://www.h33t.com where filesharing is a contact sport

Sopcast is perfect for those away games you can’t afford to get to and aren’t on TV.

All it needs is to mass market by having better picture quality and the ability to tie it into a live (normally local) radio broadcast (normally on the net) where you can sync the audio somewhere close to whats on screen.

NowTors: http://www.nowtors.com

Is there a downside to pirating live events from pay-to view broadcasters? Well no. If they fail to win bids as a result of piracy, public broadcasters such as the BBC or ITV stand a far better chance of winning the rights to broadcast games live. In the end its the fans who win. If people can view the events freely or record them legaly to watch at a later time there would be less incentive for them to download crappy chinese copies. The fans win, the public broadcasters win, the advertisers win (except if the BBC got the rights) and the only one SOL is the pay-to-view broadcasters who are only ripping you off anyway.

Pirate away, it might actualy do some good.

I live in Canada and 95% of the time during the regular season you dont get to see your favuorite hockey team play in the regular season unless you actually live in the same province as that team. Otherwise your SOL unless its the Make-me-laffs.

So i found Sopcast. Its p2p streaming, and i’ve never had to miss a game since. I hope the footie fans discover Sopcast and programs like it. And it doesnt lag & the picture is awesome.

although i agree with you, you should still apreciate the fact that people should be able to access what they like without stupid copyright restrictions and bs.

Its the same thing with smoking.. i fuckin cant stand all these anti-smoke shit.. and ive never even smoked a cig. Im also not a sports fan, but I can understand why people want it.

It is NOT right for you to TAKE someone elses work and try and sell it.

Copyright as it stands, is only to protect the industry. Artists are farmed and consumers are raped.

Except pirates, we choose a different path. We support artists directly and tell the industry to go fuck itself.

Which side are you on?