Comments on: Sports Broadcasters Go After Live Streaming Pirates

By: John

John — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:41:43 +0000

By: blem

blem — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:45:14 +0000

No-name… you couldn’t have said it better.

By: my 2 cent car crash.

my 2 cent car crash. — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:21:00 +0000

Does Len Berman have anything to do with this?

By: $PORT$

$PORT$ — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:12:32 +0000

This insatiable greed just boggles the mind … so much revenue is generated by advertising, endorsements and the like … one would think the powers that be would stfu and gladly support ANY medium that offers FREE exposure. Fans are generally very supportive of their favorite teams, sports figures, etc. … BILLIONS are spent every year on merchandise and a whole slew of other useless items … and of course, each fan is a potential walking billboard … instead of conducting these witch hunts, the greedy bastards should show a little more appreciation to the millions of dedicated supporters who built their empires. Case closed.

By: zerc

zerc — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:52:10 +0000

I guess justin.tv is gonna lose a lot of traffic. It seems like 90% of their streams are ppv sports, movies, and tv.

By: klotz

klotz — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:50:23 +0000

Where the hell can one order these fine shoes in europe, searched th enet and found nothing.

By: ADAM343

ADAM343 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:47:50 +0000

they failed at stopping the wrestle mania streams and they will fail at everything else. when one stream goes down another goes up and everyone in the room tells the other where the next stream is .

By: snafu

snafu — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:45:16 +0000

@Jonne
Shoes in the pic are “Adidas AdiFC Orlando Pirates”.

By: lol

lol — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:27:52 +0000

ya damn where do i get those shoes.. lol

By: Meh

Meh — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:15:10 +0000

All you need to do is set your stream channel to private, then create an embed through a linking site. Once that is done, the odds of having your stream shutdown drop dramatically.

By: No-name

No-name — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:35:35 +0000

Fine, bring the streams down, but in return BROADCAST EVERYTHING IN OUR COUNTRIES!!!!!! How the hell are we suppose to follow our teams without streaming? When they’re not even broadcasted on TV here?
Greedy idiots.

By: AnarchyNow

AnarchyNow — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:00:27 +0000

there’s too much money in sports, and they doesn’t give anything back, it’s just old roman “bread & games” to keep you from reclaiming your freedoms

By: joshua

joshua — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:50:03 +0000

Stop Steaming Pirates now!

they are much better fried.

By: lolster

lolster — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:25:03 +0000

Sport? lolster

By: Cobbydon

Cobbydon — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:12:32 +0000

I pay for a season ticket to aston villa in EPL i go to all the home games and as many of the away games as i can but cant get to all. My reason for watchin these streams is that skysports and sultana sports choose other games which leaves me having to watch it on a channel from another country like china

By: Jonne

Jonne — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:38:13 +0000

I just want to know where you can get the shoes from the picture…

By: anon

anon — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:44:50 +0000

so, what about people who stream from other countries (with proxies) sites like BBC iPlayer?
safe or no?

By: JFetch

JFetch — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:34:03 +0000

WWE went after Justin.tv and other sites hard during Wrestlemania. Streams were being shut down due to Copyright claims left and right.

By: my 2 cent car crash.

my 2 cent car crash. — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:54:52 +0000

I paid for a PPV boxing match.
When it came on the ruskie boxer backed out of the match at the last minute.

So I was left holding the bag for this over priced rip off.

And no refund was offered after calling my provider.

Needless to say this was the last PPV event I ever bothered with.

By: dissenter

dissenter — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:43:23 +0000

LOL Sports
+1

I’ve often wondered what the hell would warrant the stupid sums of money that these meat heads make. OK so you can make a ball go into a hole, and you can do it really really well, but is this worth millions?

By: $PORT$

$PORT$ — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:25:44 +0000

I think the real issue is that professional athletes aren’t being paid well enough … it’s really difficult to survive when you’re barely “earning” 100s of millions of dollars for merely tossing a ball around, or some other equally formidable activity which contributes sooooo significantly to the progress of mankind … heck, we must do everything in our power to make sure that these Supreme Deities and their overlords are adequately compensated … or, heaven forbid, they will no longer play sports! Oh, the horror!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:58:07 +0000

Can they track you if you use tvants to watch like MLB games?

By: NappyD

NappyD — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:50:14 +0000

And what about sporting events shown on ESPN360?

Not every ISP (read: pretty much everyone other than AT&T) carries this ripoff, and even then they show commercials over that feed. Which really sucks in the case of collegiate athletics.

For example, it really blows that someone on the other side of the globe can watch a college basketball game over espn360 while people in America who went to a school can’t even watch it.

For once I agree with Comcast’s approach of “the hell with that” and would rather watch a pirated broadcast of it.

By: DakE_FeatH

DakE_FeatH — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:35:52 +0000

There’s no other way to watch Romanian soccer league than by “illegal” P2P Sopcast channels. Well, another option would be intallation of illegal satellite lol

By: suni

suni — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:28:26 +0000

pundai

By: thanks

thanks — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:27:07 +0000

tahanks

By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:03:55 +0000

I love those shoes!
Where can I get them?

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:01:51 +0000

They must not be doing a very good job! I love my English Premier League streams on TVU, Sopcast, etc. <3 myp2p.eu

By: SV Sea Stalion

SV Sea Stalion — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:55:05 +0000

signal theft, hahahah wow. I cannot wait until they figure a way to charge for the air we breathe or the water we drink… oh wait…

How I see it, the days of massive mega fortunes made on telecom/media are over. Sure, you can spout out the corporate buzz words, digital copy, or pay-per-view/pay-per-stream but the future is defensively ad supported “free” media revenue. However, just like the previous posts, there are those willing to pay for it, not me, but they are some who love the game. Why not actually give it to them MLB.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:26:36 +0000

wtf is signal theft

By: Abu G.

Abu G. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:25:28 +0000

The really ridiculous part, in the U.S., at least, is that there’s no legitimate way to stream them anyways. I’m at a college where we don’t get cable in the dorms, and there’s virtually no broadcast signal to speak of, so unless I turn to these channels, I have no way of watching them.

Even MLB, which has a pretty good season deal, refuses to stream playoff games. And the NFL doesn’t even bother at all. Come on, guys! I WANT to give you my money!

It’s some stupid deal with ‘blackout areas,’ but the bottom line is that it’s COSTING them money.

By: ipunk

ipunk — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:56:33 +0000

Rights to Football in the UK is sold to 5 different broadcasters. Half of them making you pay a subscription fee to watch. Us fans are the ones who end up out of pocket so why shouldn’t we stream to watch our teams.

By: CCC

CCC — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:36:32 +0000

good luck in never ending cat and mouse cycle

By: www.10ch.org

www.10ch.org — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:34:12 +0000

“Even though the advertizement are viewed in the ‘pirate’-stream, the broadcasting company actually loses money by not being able to track accurately how popular the broadcast was, and therefore they cannot charge the right amount for the advertising time for similar events in the future.”
Then it is more reasonable to ask those who are sending those pirate streams to report the number of viewers, rather than to take them down.

By: Ekku

Ekku — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:24:33 +0000

Even though the advertizement are viewed in the “pirate”-stream, the broadcasting company actually loses money by not being able to track accurately how popular the broadcast was, and therefore they cannot charge the right amount for the advertising time for similar events in the future.

By: redcam

redcam — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:09:40 +0000

Perhaps if the charged more reasonable rates for PPV sporting events more people would actually purchase. A UFC event in my area costs $70+ per event. You can probably get a mediocre seat for not much more then that at the actual event.

By: logic voter

logic voter — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:54:27 +0000

those shoes were pretty gangsta :)

By: Old Hippy Dude

Old Hippy Dude — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:49:09 +0000

They used to complain about recording radio with a cassette and TV with a VCR. Someday, everyone will access all communications from a satellite. We will be recording that with our computers. Life goes on and the dinosaur acronyms are still in the Jurassic Era complaining they aren’t making “enough” money. Damned corporate pukes. Bottom line my ass!

By: Basement Warrior AHAHAHA too Great

Basement Warrior AHAHAHA too Great — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:29:41 +0000

I refuse to pay for a payperview event. Complete waste of money.

By: in.cog.nito

in.cog.nito — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:53:10 +0000

*jerkoff handmotion*

more futile bullshit.

stop molesting your users with ridiculous fees, and use new technology or we will do it without you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:32:40 +0000

So these are server streams and not P2P streams?

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:12:05 +0000

@Dennis They are not targeting the people who watch the streams (unlike with BitTorrent).

They contact the sites that offer these streams and ask them to take it down/warn the user.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:09:20 +0000

@rickards BayTSP has a NDA with these companies so they can’t tell who they are..

By: rickards

rickards — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:02:37 +0000

who are the 3 broadcasters anyway? i’m assuming, WWE, UFC and ESPN–can someone get confirmation on that?

By: Richie

Richie — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:00:26 +0000

BayTSP = Mega A*sholes

Still waiting for BayTSP Defenders.

By: Cygnus

Cygnus — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:57:51 +0000

If they stream live TV. aren’t they streaming commercials also? so… who’s losing money?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:57:08 +0000

I live in the US and watch cricket all the time with TVU, Sopcast and whatever else works because I’m not interested in paying the $80 a month that it would cost me to see it on TV.

I don’t really understand the last two paragraphs –whether they imply that I’m safe because I can’t be tracked. I would appreciate some clarification of this.