Do you want to kill what tiny fanbase you already have in America? Because this is how you kill what tiny fanbase you already have in America. We already have MLS to not give a fuck about, but if you make it impossible for fans of a premier team to watch their team play then people will pivot to MLS or a new sport entirely. And somebody might chime in to point out that they have no reason to care about people who aren’t paying customers, except that these white whale fans absolutely are paying customers because they buy team merch and don’t shut the fuck up about how other people should also pay attention to their team, thus expanding interest in their team across the American market.
I like the sport, but I can’t be bothered to give a shit about any team in particular. I just like the higher stakes games between high performance teams like in the world cup group stage and onward.
Premier league by all accounts is growing in popularity in the U.S. Them going to court sort of shows how valuable it’s become. But I of course agree this will lead to much lower viewing in total.
Glad to see the site I go to isn’t there. Also hilarious that I have Sky Sports and TNT and yet for 3pm I’m forced to stream, but also, sometimes it’s just easier for me to stream via an illegal site.
When the “illegal” site works better.
The 3pm game is a matter of law, it’s not that the legal route doesn’t work it is that it can’t work because of laws.
But I’m all for piracy giving a better experience.
My main isn’t there, but sucks to see crackstream on there.
Sports is the final frontier for piracy. Live events, blackouts, and the general shadiness of pirate sports streaming sites make for one hell of a challenge. If sports content providers could just provide an all-in-one streaming solution at a fair price, it would definitely solve the “service problem” aspect of pirating sports.
