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[uvelocity]

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fantastic blog post from Jarrod Kimber, stumbled across from a robelinda channel comment. thought it deserved a thread.

Amazing to me that when there is no product available, that establishment stakeholders can be against alternative sources. As he wrote illegal streaming is annoying. And there is clearly a market.

 

[Jono]

Awesome shout out for Rob.

And good article.

 

[benchmark00]

Please don't discuss illegal streams. The police watch CW very very closely and are looking for a reason to close this site down.

 

[Jono]

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[Viscount Tom]

Found the article from the comment on the Langer 6 of Sami video just like me I take it.

Cricket broadcasters should either authorise the streams of videos unavailable in certain countries, or provide them with adverts or something.

 

[uvelocity]

yep I did viscount tom.

There's a few sports with internet subscriptions like nba & motogp and cricket should get on board

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Streaming is very much a last resort for me. Unreliable, dodgy, and grainy as ****. If there's ever any way of getting live cricket in NZ which doesn't involve paying an arm an a leg for 100 other channels I don't want I'll be onto it in a flash.

 

[Furball]

Yeah, good article.

Surely the technology exists to make Sky Sports' content available on a pay-per-view basis? IIRC in order to get Sky Sports, the minimum cost is £40 per month once you add in the other packages you need to take in order to get sports, but whilst I understand the market forces behind that particular model, surely an alternative model can co-exist so that for example next summer, you can pay a fee to Sky in order to get coverage of the Ashes series without getting any of Sky's other sports content?

 

[Spark]

Yeah once again we'll get the silly situation where people half a world away get it on FTA (because any Aus cricket against England in England is on the anti-siphoning list) and the people an hour's drive away don't.

 

[GIMH]

An hour's drive? How small do you think this country is?! Goes up as high as 3 or 4 at points!!!!

 

[uvelocity]

drive faster ****