It doesn't solve recording and uploading later... say a movie. So how does it even make sense?
Games are time-sensitive events. Most people who care don't want to watch the game once it's finished, they want to watch it live.
Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
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Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
I pay for a ton of sports content across a ton of platforms. I used to pirate a ton of sports across a ton of platforms. I don’t seem to have nearly the same difficulty as you. I wanted to watch the Olympics so I reactivated my Peacock account, paid for a month, then immediately canceled it. I’ve never had consistent issues finding where I could watch a particular game. It is aggravating that my MLBTV subscription do…
> I don’t seem to have nearly the same difficulty as you. Wait til you hear of this concept called "Dead Zones". The NBA has them. What's that? It's where you live in the streaming blackout zone and get a nice message saying "watch this on your regional sporting affiliate", but you don't live in the TV zone for that team, so "your regional sporting affiliate" doesn't cover the game. So you get to watch... national ga…
This made me give up on league pass. How hard is it for them to just provide every single game for one price? It's insane. It's honestly a big reason I don't follow NBA any more.
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#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd trade "not being able to access Cloudflare-websites for some hours per week" over "My neighbors can't afford healthcare, there is no public transport for anyone nor can I walk to a cafe on the other side of town", but we all have different priorities :) Don't get me wrong, it sucks, makes no sense and I hate the responsible people for it, but in the grand scheme of things, Spain does have a higher quality of life…
I don't think Spain has such amazing quality of life if you are not already set. It's very tough for young people. It doesn't reward hard work and education. If you have your nice house in a nice place and a good government job it's a happy place but from what I see around people, especially young productive people are not in good place here. Spain is lucky that it gets around 20% of its economy because of nice weath…
> It's very tough for young people. It doesn't reward hard work and education.
Isn't this applicable to pretty much everywhere now?
Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
#394If you know Spain, you know this makes total sense: - Half the country or more just doesn't work or do anything else when there's an important match anyway. - There's a big intersection between "people that doesn't care about soccer" and "people that knows how to use a VPN" - Matches are usually at night, past 7pm. It's well after the average citizen work hours. - There's not really huge internet companies there that…
> Matches are usually at night, past 7pm. It's well after the average citizen work hours.
That's exactly when I would want to work on a side project after my full time job. Seems really harmful if Spain wants to have the possibility of individuals with full time jobs developing ideas that can turn into startups that could become unicorns.
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#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
The EU is more likely to enact more censorship than other way.
This. The chat control 2.0 law includes blocking orders. And Ursula von der Leyen tried to introduce internet censorship when she was still in German politics.
Germans don't call her Cenzursula for nothing.
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#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There's a percentage of people who will never pay, it's true - and by never pay, it means never pay. You can't get them to pay by blocking or adding DRM or whatever. The point is DRM can get people to pay who would have otherwise not paid.
Yes, and those people are not part of the group who will not pay no matter what.
Jumping in with one persons anecdotal evidence but I loved when I can pay $10 a month for Netflix when it had everything or almost everything I could watch and I quit pirating. When the content from other networks got pulled and the prices starting getting jacked up I went back to the seven seas. A good service with good quality at a decent price is awesome but 10 different services all trying to gouge me for $15-$20 a month with no guarantee the content I like won’t be removed in a few months is ludicrous and led me right back to not paying anything.
Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
#397Assuming that "piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem" is still the prevailing wisdom, what is Spain / La Liga doing wrong that sports piracy is so prevalent as to warrant this? It seems like a no-brainer to expand stream availability and charge appropriately for it vs. scheduling daily kneecaps of other economic activity.
> Assuming that "piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem" is still the prevailing wisdom I don't have experience with broadcast media (in Spain, especially) but I a little experience on the software side: I could not believe the lengths some people would go to in order to avoid paying even $5-10 for useful software. Hours of work, sketchy cracks, downloading things from websites likely to compromise their…
So obvious solution is for sports streamers offer free stream too, but riddled with ads just enough that it is slightly better than illegal ones?
Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Assuming that "piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem" is still the prevailing wisdom I don't have experience with broadcast media (in Spain, especially) but I a little experience on the software side: I could not believe the lengths some people would go to in order to avoid paying even $5-10 for useful software. Hours of work, sketchy cracks, downloading things from websites likely to compromise their…
It's a service problem. Every new service is a colossal headache to set up payment, remember to cancel payment if you only wanted to see the single event and have no need for the service the rest of the year, find what's playing on what when, deal with their bullshit when they add ads onto an ad-free plan that you bought only because it was ad-free, yadda yadda yadda. The suits could have had 10x as much money out of…
Bingo. If US/EU wanna regulate tech, these are the things to regulate.
Re: Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
#399If you know Spain, you know this makes total sense: - Half the country or more just doesn't work or do anything else when there's an important match anyway. - There's a big intersection between "people that doesn't care about soccer" and "people that knows how to use a VPN" - Matches are usually at night, past 7pm. It's well after the average citizen work hours. - There's not really huge internet companies there that…
> Matches are usually at night, past 7pm. It's well after the average citizen work hours. That's exactly when I would want to work on a side project after my full time job. Seems really harmful if Spain wants to have the possibility of individuals with full time jobs developing ideas that can turn into startups that could become unicorns.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Another one that the Europeans like to this effect is unrealized capital gains tax, to make sure you never make it to the unicorn stage.
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It doesn't have to be significantly better. If the service is stable, cheap and hassle-free, people will pay for it.
For many users it's just not true. I run a subscription weather forecast service for pilots, with a free trial period. A significant number of users reset their device every week to avoid paying 10 euros a month. These are aircraft owners .
There will always be some amount of people who are too cheap to pay.
However, that doesn't mean that if you plug all the holes that they will pay. No. They'll just not use your service.
In the long run it's better to keep these types of people around because they at least advertise your service. But getting any money out of them is a pipe dream.
People often frame piracy as "oh 5% pirated instead of paying!" Well... the "instead of" part is doing the heavy lifting there. The options arent pirate or pay. They're pirate, pay, or not use.