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Sports is even worse, wanna watch the game for your favorite sport? Gotta have that one special subscription! That shit thrives on exclusivity deals. (Super Bow
by mstade 8y ago
Sports is even worse, wanna watch the game for your favorite sport? Gotta have that one special subscription! That shit thrives on exclusivity deals. (Super Bowl ads, anyone?)
When I lived in the UK I signed up for an out-of-market subscription for NHL, it was something like $50 and I could watch any game from any broadcast (they always do a home and away broadcast) and they’d block out most of the ads because it was out of market and they hadn’t sold the ads there. Now the UK does air some nhl games, particularly during the playoffs, so how’d I do it? Used a vpn in like Peru or somewhere that wouldn’t give two craps about hockey. I paid for it, but still had to jump through hoops to watch it. What I time to be alive.
Whoever figures out the Netflix of sports, wins. I’m calling it.
- chx 8y ago> I paid for it, but still had to jump through hoops to watch it. What I time to be alive. When I travel in the EU, several sites refuse to show because of GDPR. My favorite paid porn site doesn't even explain anything just goes to an "under maintenance" page. I can't buy a cinema ticket for the time when I'll be home because the purchase page simply doesn't load. All of this goes away by SSH'ing to my home and using the OpenSSH SOCKS proxy. Or by using a VPN.
- hug 8y agoAustralia has (maybe? mostly?) figured this out with a subscription service called Kayo. It is $15 a month and contains basically every sport my friends who like sports watch. I'm looking forward to seeing it collapse into a pile of garbage when the governing bodies of various sports catch on and try to "extract value" from streaming. The "available sports" on Kayo: https://help.kayosports.com.au/s/article/What-content-is-available-as-part-of-your-Kayo-subscription https://help.kayosports.com.au/s/article/What-content-is-ava...