Wired on Cord Cutters

Usually pretty good articles...

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But the thing is, every wall crumbles given enough time. And that’s what’s happening right now. Great change often begins very slowly, and then floodgates open all at once. And after years of slow progress in cord cutting, we’re approaching a critical mass when that “all at once” is about to hit. Sure, NBC refused to give the Olympics away without making sure you paid elsewhere for one of its channels. But Major League Baseball has one of the most amazing video-on-demand services around (aside from those pesky local blackouts). The games are available on almost any video-delivery device you can think of, and the MLB doesn’t care a whit about your cable company. And it’s hardly the only sport doing this — you can also watch college football, cycling and horse racing online. Meanwhile, instructions for setting up location-spoofing VPNs to watch foreign streams of sporting events are everywhere online. Countless masses watched the 2012 Olympics using some surreptitious method. The combination of piracy and proven paths to profitability that other sporting events have blazed ensure that the 2016 games will be truly on-demand — even though NBC took home a nice paycheck from its London coverage, the network brass must know they left money on the table.

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I was struck by this comment too:

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And if you have an Apple TV and the newest Mac operating system, AirPlay mirroring makes it SEC-school easy to download shows — legally or not — to your computer and watch them on your ginormous TV.

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And I want to go on a pillaging rampage. Not because of the SEC slight actually, more along the lines of ANYONE really thinking their education is THAT much better (outside of the TRUE elites) is that much better than anyone else's. Anyone, that's for another board.