so they arrested the guy, but the site is still up?? so who is uploading all the links, if the guy is in jail? http://www.channelsurf.eu/
Exactly. What do you think of when you think of watching MMA? Is it sitting alone in front of a computer? Is it watching it with your girlfriend? No the ideal situation is ALWAYS watching it with a bunch of dudes, eating and drinking beer. If you can get 1 dude who watches a free stream and gets into the sport, you've just likely got 3-4 guys interested. Just let it go. No one who's a fan watches any sport over streams. It's just guys who are curious or uninvolved. Or it's a 12 year old kid who really loves MMA and will eventually buy your PPV when he grows up. I'm going to guess that deprived of all other live sources, those dudes would either just wait and youtube/download it or not watch it at all. Obviously there's the moral umbrage at some ****** making a few dollars off your work but look at the bigger picture. Yeah. Homeland security also has the very important job of tapping our phones as well. Busting channelsurfing isn't going to stop anyone from stealing PPV. They'll simply switch to another source. Since this action isn't depriving people their benefits, it's probably not the latter The annoyance is that this appears to be a stupid use of resources akin to the swat team staking out illegal immigrants who trim your hedges. Congratulations Government you just caught a criminal. Can you go find Osama or stop them at the border now please? There's also the issue of oversight and due protection when a judge can basically issue warrants at a very low threshold to take ppl's sites without process or appeal. They put a list of sites in front a judge, he signs it and then boom its' gone forever. And obviously the vast powers that homeland security can execute to get your information, again without protections or process. I'm speaking for myself but probably also echo the thoughts of other posters in that it's not just this specific action. The internet used to be this open, anonymous and collaborative thing and now getting squeezed by google/corporate American on one end and the government on the other the box is getting smaller and smaller.
Just like giving out tickets for speeding isn't going to stop everyone that speeds and sending murderers to prison isn't going to stop anyone that wants to murder. Laws aren't there to prevent everyone from committing every crime that is on the books. However, if any law deters one person from committing one crime, then ultimately, we are all better off, if only just a little bit. If I get pulled over for speeding in Jersey Village, I am probably not going to speed in Jersey Village again. Maybe I will still speed in Tomball, until I get busted there. And so on and so on. See the pattern? So you think that 100% of DHS and ICE resources are dedicated to finding terrorists and that they don't (or shouldn't) have other responsibilities? That is akin to saying police should only be looking for murderers and child molesters and should not worry about lesser crimes like speeding or petty theft. I think you are speaking for yourself. I would like to think that most of us would be concerned and would seek restitution if we were a victim of a crime, whether it happened at our home, at work, at a bar or on the internet. If you were a web designer and posted a portfolio on the internet for prospective clients to see and someone stole your work, passed it off as their own and profited from it, would you have a problem with that or is that ok since it happened on the internet?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...s-showing-bootleg-live-games-on-internet.html Sports Leagues Battle Video Pirates Showing Bootleg Live Games on Internet By Brad Stone - Feb 24, 2011 4:08 PM CT It’s Saturday, Feb. 5, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, and 11,000 fans are watching as barefoot brawlers pummel each other in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the mixed martial arts league. Edward Muncey is engaged in hand-to-hand combat, but not in the ring; he’s at a keyboard in a room a few hundred feet away that reverberates with the roar from the arena. Dressed in a black pinstripe suit, the UFC’s vice president of new media and technology pitches forward on a hotel chair before three computer screens, trawling the Internet to find and shut down unauthorized live broadcasts of the evening’s matches, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its Feb. 28 edition. As the night progresses, unauthorized video streams of the event sprout across the Web. Although Muncey has contracted with several anti-piracy firms around the world, he identifies more than 200 illegal broadcasts of the fight playing on a single site: Justin.tv, the live video streaming service, based in San Francisco. He’s able to shut these down using a Web tool that Justin.tv makes available to copyright holders. He has less luck with videos of the event he finds on dozens of other sites and blogs. Muncey and his team fire off hundreds of threatening e- mails to the operators of these websites, demanding that they take down the illicit feeds. Many comply, but others respond slowly or not at all. “It’s like someone stole your car and is celebrating by doing a doughnut on the parking lot next door,” Muncey says. Read the rest here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...s-showing-bootleg-live-games-on-internet.html
Dude, you can't be serious? Fans don't watch sport steams? LMAO. Try going to boxing, wrestling or MMA forums and you'll see so many people requesting streams. In fact, many die hard fans rather watch a free stream than pay for a $60 PPV. Streams definitely effect PPV. You can't sit there and tell me that the only folks watching these sport streams are just curious or uninvolved? Wow, so ignorant. The economic state alone is forcing people to streams as opposed to buying the actual PPV. Obviously, the majority isn't watching on streams but enough people do that it does hurt PPV buy rates. You can't just ignore it. If there were no streams available at all, like before the Internet became the source, PPV buys would shoot up.
Yeah and don't forget busting the nefarious Martha Stewart. Meanwhile the banks and Wall Street willfully almost obliterated the global economy, got the taxpayers to bail them out completely and not a soul will go to jail. Yay freedom.
For the NBA, the only thing that streaming sites like these hurt is their league pass service. It's just way too expensive. I would gladly pay $20 for a season's worth of live Rockets games, but I would not pay $100+ or whatever they are charging. That is why I watch streaming games. They could even sell ad space on their league pass broadcasts. I know that they blank out the commercial breaks during those, but why not put ads there, anything that will lower the cost of league pass. I would gladly watch ads instead of paying extra money.
The thing is with league pass you pay for all the team games, something I think shouldn't be required. They should offer package deals or something for specific teams, but Stern is a Jew.
Im a huge fan and I watch Rockets games on my computer, because I cant watch them on my TV, since I live outside the US. I got some games showing here, but not the rockets. And about League Pass broadband, like other said, I dont want to see all the teams, so its expensive, also since I have an old laptop, I dont think it could handle the HD broadcasts they have there, so why I want to pay for a watching a game when its stops every 10 seconds?
