If you're inclined to try (with shields up!), the user experience and video quality of pirate sports streams have improved dramatically in the last few years.

If you're inclined to try (with shields up!), the user experience and video quality of pirate sports streams have improved dramatically in the last few years. It's an interesting ethical quandary. I wouldn't mind chipping in financially but not with the current business model. Bundling TV channels I don't care about? No thanks. Local blackouts? Please. Paying the services that engage in these anti-consumer practices is only exacerbating the problem. I see pirate streams as doing my part to force the parties involved to find another way. As another comment alluded, this is an industry on the precipice of a moment. Along the lines of the arrival of Spotify, or the iPod. We're not far away now.