Uh oh - No more streaming sites

[juraitwaluzka]

I wouldn't worry too much, the demand still exists and the suppliers still have desire to supply. Someone will fill the void, they always do.

Quote:"The illegal streaming of professional sporting events over the Internet deals a financial body blow to the leagues and broadcasters who are forced to pass their losses off to fans by raising prices for tickets and pay-per-view events," Bharara said.

This is just absurd. While in Florida on vacation, I streamed a few games since at my Parent's house they don't have cable or satellite. So just how was the NFL dealt a financial blow? If I didn't stream I simply would not have seen the game. There is no opportunity for me to pay to stream the game so there is no financial loss. If anything they would lose potential money as I wouldn't even see the commercials.

It's even more absurd that the department of homeland security is involved. Oh no, someone is watching an NFL game, they could be a terrorist, better send them straight to the airport to be groped!

[Radical]

They'll just pop up under new names or under mirror sites. It is hard to maintain that much control over the internet.

[j3rman]

(02-03-2011 10:18 AM)chazmataz Wrote:  this is exactly the same thought that hit me right off. Immigration???? really????????? oh forget about all the illegal's here taking our jobs, using our tax dollars and not putting anything back, go focus on internet streaming sites.....LOL

never used a streaming site myself, but for those out of reach of cable and don't have satellite, guess you'll go back to no games

Sorry, this post has nothing to do with this topic but Really?!? Illegal's taking your jobs? Do you want to do all of the shit jobs they do? Were you trying to get the janitor job at the local school and they past over you for an immigrant? I'm sorry but it isn't like they are just hopping the border, applying for 100k jobs and taking them from hard working americans. You know the reason they get the jobs they do? They work HARDER than most americans. If america wasn't so lazy then you wouldn't have anything to worry about. You do know that if they have a job, they are paying taxes the same as you, right? How are they using our tax dollars and not putting anything back? Racism is an ugly beast. /rant

[juraitwaluzka]

[Radical]

(02-03-2011 05:36 PM)j3rman Wrote:  Sorry, this post has nothing to do with this topic but Really?!? Illegal's taking your jobs? Do you want to do all of the shit jobs they do? Were you trying to get the janitor job at the local school and they past over you for an immigrant? I'm sorry but it isn't like they are just hopping the border, applying for 100k jobs and taking them from hard working americans. You know the reason they get the jobs they do? They work HARDER than most americans. If america wasn't so lazy then you wouldn't have anything to worry about. You do know that if they have a job, they are paying taxes the same as you, right? How are they using our tax dollars and not putting anything back? Racism is an ugly beast. /rant

No... they work far cheaper than most Americans, because they aren't legal, thus circumnavigating minimum wage and reducing the pay that you would normally see if an American held the post. Why hire an American for 7$ an hour or so when you can get 3 illegals to work for 1/3 of the price and abuse them while doing so.

Throw that in with the fact that most of the money they get is under the table, or they work their way into the system just long enough to get a government hand out they can send back to their home country, and you have a problem. Take this from someone who has family that works inside the Social Security of things, including one person who compiles the paper work for people filing for SSI. This is coming from someone who is called a liberal all over the place.

The system is broken.

[ViperXX79]

Best place for streams is http://www.myp2pforum.eu. Been using it for years.

[illmusic]

(02-03-2011 08:29 PM)Radical Wrote:  No... they work far cheaper than most Americans, because they aren't legal, thus circumnavigating minimum wage and reducing the pay that you would normally see if an American held the post. Why hire an American for 7$ an hour or so when you can get 3 illegals to work for 1/3 of the price and abuse them while doing so.

Throw that in with the fact that most of the money they get is under the table, or they work their way into the system just long enough to get a government hand out they can send back to their home country, and you have a problem. Take this from someone who has family that works inside the Social Security of things, including one person who compiles the paper work for people filing for SSI. This is coming from someone who is called a liberal all over the place.

The system is broken.

Lol...most illegal I know that "take American jobs" are working for housing and eating privileges on a farm aka slavery. You can have that job if you want, or you can get a college degree, its pretty simple. Or, better yet, get a job for a corporation who wouldn't have a means for paying under the table...but hey, landscaping is the only American opportunity, eh? I have a problem with them not paying taxes but a lot of these people are living on tax payer property in exchange for labor so it isn't as bad of a situation.

[The Falcon Jedi]

Football season is over anyway. There will be more sites to pop up next year.

[papachaz]

(02-03-2011 05:36 PM)j3rman Wrote:  Sorry, this post has nothing to do with this topic but Really?!? Illegal's taking your jobs? Do you want to do all of the shit jobs they do? Were you trying to get the janitor job at the local school and they past over you for an immigrant? I'm sorry but it isn't like they are just hopping the border, applying for 100k jobs and taking them from hard working americans. You know the reason they get the jobs they do? They work HARDER than most americans. If america wasn't so lazy then you wouldn't have anything to worry about. You do know that if they have a job, they are paying taxes the same as you, right? How are they using our tax dollars and not putting anything back? Racism is an ugly beast. /rant

wow, thank you SO MUCH for the sociology lesson!!!! i do SOOO appreciate it. /sarcasm off.

not even gonna dignify most of your post. as a manager, (being that i do a little janitorial work from time to time, even dish washing, which is what i was doing when i hurt my back three weeks ago)I employ several people of different ethic backgrounds, i'm the absolute farthest thing from a racist that there is, really. Even the hispanics who are here legally don't like the illegals being here. The negativity brought upon them by the illegals is really hard on them. as for them paying taxes, if they're illegally here, and they hold a job with a false id, yeah they pay some taxes, at least until they get caught. oh and for the record, the hispanics i've employed are by far some of the hardest workers i've ever had, so you were partially right. and yeah, a lot of the americans i've had are some of the laziest employees, can't argue that either.

What I was getting at is that there are a LOT more important things for Homeland Security and Immigration to worry about than sports games being streamed illegally.

go aim your self righteous rants at someone else, i wasn't impressed at all

[kibitzer]

Just in time for my move to NC.... Ugh. Panther country and no Falcons.... just kill me now.