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NFL piracy
BoingBoing disappoints me.
Over the weekend, there was a pivotal NFL game. All I know about it is that the New England Patriots are playing, and the game is only carried on the NFL network, a network that many cable companies don't even carry, and those that do put it on their most expensive tiers. The office was abuzz about it all last week.
Now, based on everything Cory Doctorow has been saying for the last few years, when entertainment companies do something truly clueless, the public responds by filling the gap, and usually this means ordinary law-abiding citizens become heartless pirates. Therefore, I expected there to pirated streams all over the Internet, rebroadcasting the live game without the express written consent of the NFL. And since cutting commercials out of live TV is difficult, maybe a few smartass ones would replace all the beer commercials with scenes from every Lifetime movie where a drunk husband is beating up his wife.
I wonder if that will ever happen.
Over the weekend, there was a pivotal NFL game. All I know about it is that the New England Patriots are playing, and the game is only carried on the NFL network, a network that many cable companies don't even carry, and those that do put it on their most expensive tiers. The office was abuzz about it all last week.
Now, based on everything Cory Doctorow has been saying for the last few years, when entertainment companies do something truly clueless, the public responds by filling the gap, and usually this means ordinary law-abiding citizens become heartless pirates. Therefore, I expected there to pirated streams all over the Internet, rebroadcasting the live game without the express written consent of the NFL. And since cutting commercials out of live TV is difficult, maybe a few smartass ones would replace all the beer commercials with scenes from every Lifetime movie where a drunk husband is beating up his wife.
I wonder if that will ever happen.
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Also, there are cities with lots of transplants, including Phoenix, where you might find more fans of their original hometown than the actual local team.
I also hear that a lot of problems are due to conventions that have outlived their usefulness. Rules like blacking out a local game if it's not sold out, because if there are seats available, you might as well go to the ballpark and buy a ticket, why not? Well, that convention dates back to before traffic and urban sprawl made the stadium a 90-minute drive from your house, and before ticket prices got into the ridiculous range.
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I don't know what machinations went on to make that happen.
But I think I've heard more stuff happening for the final Thursday night game of Patriots vs Giants, which might be the first team to have an unbeaten regular season for a long while