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Sports is keeping traditional TV alive somewhat, but there are ways to stream sports online without a traditional cable / sat subscription, such as Sling.TV

• SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
  Well, to stream some sports online. Sling.TV has problems with licensing agreements where they can't show certain "in market" games, for instance. (There's other, subtler licensing problems too.) The way that sports got split between the major networks and exclusivity agreements means that their cabal is essentially impossible to entirely replace via a streaming service for any kind of reasonable price even though I can sometimes get the product for free over the air. Media licensing is a shitshow. Honestly, at this point, I'm for extending the situations under which a compulsory license is granted, setting up a fixed fee, and just letting people have at it. We need a new model. Copyright as currently implemented is non-functional.
  • oldmanjay 10y ago
    Copyright is totally functional. What you are really saying is you want cheaper sports and the people who don't give you what you want are dicks. It's a mistake a lot of people make.
    • SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
      > Copyright is totally functional. As just one instance of the copyright system breaking down, the DMCA has seriously stifled artists and led to massive censorship of controversial or critical material by vested interests and malicious actors. There are hundreds or thousands of articles on DMCA notices being used as restraint on legal speech or by people stealing the capitalization of content rather than copyright enforcement mechanism. "Totally functional."