re: How are people getting away with all of the illegal sports streaming on YouTube?

I watched every LSU football game on Youtube last season. Occasionally one would get taken down but then I'd just jump to the next one no problem.

Currently watching the Zona/Coastal game on YT

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Currently watching the Zona/Coastal game on YT

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Nothing against College Baseball but it’s not doing the numbers or bringing in the money that the college football playoffs do. It’s probably not a top priority for them to go after the streams.

There might be some kind of deal to cover fan-casts.

Urinating Tree is on YouTube but you can't embed on another site - you have to actually be on YouTube to watch.

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There is no “out” for people that watch an illegal stream. You are still breaking copyright law. Nobody is going to go after individuals, but don’t think that just watching is on the up and up

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Per Grok:

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In the United States, watching an online stream of copyrighted content without proper authorization can be considered illegal under certain circumstances, though the legal implications are nuanced and depend on specific factors.

While watching unauthorized streams of copyrighted content can be illegal in the U.S., the likelihood of individual viewers facing legal action is low but not zero. Civil penalties, ISP actions, and cybersecurity risks are the primary concerns.

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The main reason they would come after you is commercialization. If you make the stream publicly viewable, i.e., at a pub or restaurant/bar, illegally showing streams like, NFL games or high-profile fights, they are going to come after you. Usually, at your home, if an ISP is presented with evidence of illegal streaming, like from a Kodi Android device, they can block the access to the illegal streaming service from your IP addresses and throttle your speeds.

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God this is so gay

What are they going to do? Sue someone for the cost of a monthly subscription?

Also they let it go because it attracts fans that wouldn't watch otherwise and some of those fans may eventually become paying consumers

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Kind of like good seats. You’re not paying for the view, you’re paying to be around other people who can afford that view

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Worst take I've ever seen in my entire life

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YouTube hasn’t seemed to care the past couple seasons, now that’s just for the regular season. Playoff games and the bigger bowl games are a different story.

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YouTube, or Google, aren't the ones taking down streams when they do go down. They've created a process that the content owners can use to immediately bring down the stream due to copyright infringement.

In other words: ESPN has a portal login to YouTube that allows them to select a stream and mark it as violating copyright laws. If they choose to do that to a stream, it immediately goes down and a process begins to validate the stream is illegal, etc.

So, it isn't that YouTube is getting lax. It's that the content providers have gotten lax. Likely because they know they can't stop it so they've stopped trying.

It costs more to shut down than it does to not shut it down. A lot of companies that produce computer applications came to the same conclusion, the Venn Diagram of people that stream or illegally download their products vs the people that would actually buy them is nowhere near as intertwined as people would believe.