Current Events > Sports leagues want website blocking and instant stream takedown powers

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/sports-leagues-ask-us-for-instantaneous-dmca-takedowns-and-website-blocking/

Of course they do. They'd have you holding up a can of Gatorade to the webcam and saying "Life is a sport. Drink it up. Rehydrate, Replenish, Refuel. Gatorade." to verify your right to watch the game if they could.

They can do that if they want, I'll just personally stop watching and hopefully other people do the same. I like sports but not nearly enough to buy every single streaming service under the sun and also watch an asston of advertisements after doing so. I'm still not buying Peacock for Notre Dame games, anybody involved in that decision can fuck themselves for all I care

I thought peacock was free?

Alteres posted...

I thought peacock was free?

The only thing I've seen is an Amazon Prime promotion where it was temporarily free. Otherwise it's $6 a month. Not much but a local ND alumni bar was so against it that instead of paying for Peacock for 2-3 games a year, they just showed other stuff including a USC game

Alteres posted...

I thought peacock was free?

Its free to make an account and watch some stuff but the vast majority you would want to watch is locked behind premium, the subscription.

If the NFL let me pay one flat fee to watch the full season of games for the one team that I follow, then I'd be fine with that. But I'm not paying hundreds of dollars to get dozens of channels I don't care about to flip around and find whichever channel is showing the game that week. Being fans of an out-of-market team is just broken, and its shocking the NFL hasn't sorted this out yet.

Why is this bad? You have to pay for content. What's the big deal?

pikakaeru posted...

Why is this bad? You have to pay for content. What's the big deal?

We give these greedy corporations too much power to police copyright. Now we want to give them the right to unilaterally determine and remove content on their say?

Sports leagues are about to experience an uptick in pirated streams

pikakaeru posted...

Why is this bad? You have to pay for content. What's the big deal?

Cuz all my coworkers know how to get these streams through other means when we're at work and I don't want these good times to end >_>

Alteres posted...

I thought peacock was free?

There is a free version but much of the content is not available on that tier. The only ones who get it "free" with all of the content are Xfinity customers who get the ad-supported plan (or a discount on the no-ad plan if they go that route). Peacock is the worst out of all the services in the number of ads it shows (and that's on the paid plan), I'd imagine it's even worse for free customers. I've gotten 3 ad breaks with some being 90 seconds during a half hour show, which is just crazy.

PeteyParker posted...

I've gotten 3 ad breaks with some being 90 seconds during a half hour show, which is just crazy.

Used to be that a half-hour block of TV was a 22-minute show with 8 minutes of ad time.

As long as the ad breaks are set during appropriate plot beats to break for a commercial, I guess it wouldn't suck too bad.

Not like YouTube, who'll just cut ads into the middle of a sentence.

i mean, it's pretty much what they'd need in order to keep up.

Yet another entity which wants ISPs to be the internet police. Such a dumb route to go in a world full of VPNs, not to mention battling the ISPs themselves which is a tough fight.

pikakaeru posted...

Why is this bad? You have to pay for content. What's the big deal?

If the content was fairly priced and accessible and not gatekept by excessive corporate greed you'd have a point.

Remember, we're not talking about small-time cartoonists trying to make a living (like you might argue with paying for anime). We're talking about multi faceted conglomerate entities where every team has its own billionaire owner.