re: Just a heads up....r/soccerstreams is shutting down/moving

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Am I missing something here?
Doesn't necessarily sound like a bad thing.

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How old are you lol? I only ask because I feel like this kind of crime is well known now days lol.

Aside from the fact that networks will go after these people and waste no expense at catching them, shutting them down and then making their lives a living hell.....nothing is bad I guess.

Reddit is/was somewhat a human shield for the individuals who hosted those streams. You could put them all in one place and everyone cherry picked. Now lets say if NBC/EPL wanted to, they could call Reddit up and decide to sue the frick out of them for hosting all of those streams.

Well then you get into internet anonymity, freedom of speech, etc...bullshite..etc... and NBC is out a billion dollars and likely don't get anywhere.

But if it's five Tigerdroppings soccerbros who were computer science majors and think it would be a neat project, then you're going down likely within hours of hosting and paying some big arse fines.

And if that doesn't happen fast enough, then they're domain is going to get blitzed w/ takedown requests and if that is ignored, eventual ISP blocks by entire countries will be implemented. Happens a lot apparently in the UK and other countries (at least from what I've read). So you can't even access the sites if you don't use a VPN (a good one).

Now the one thing they've made clear is that they aren't going to have ads. That's the thing that usually gets these sites taken down, the gillion ads that pop up and it monetizes the site. This is typically what separates the sites that get taken down/charged/fined a billion dollars from the ones that are blocked in certain regions.

So I guess you aren't completely wrong about it possibly being a good thing, it's just very, very unlikely that a group of reddit mods are going to continue building this site and keep up with security upkeep/monetary requirements once traffic starts to roll in w/out all of the benefits that basically hosting on Reddit offered.