re: Streameast — the world’s largest illegal sports streaming platform — has been shut down

When I was working midnights on the road, Streameast was handy to watch games on the laptop in the car.

When it is easier to watch/stream via subscription than it is to pirate, I don't pirate. For example. I never pirate anime. Why would I? Crunchy roll is cheap and it has damn near everything. It works well with all of my devices and it works, so it's well worth the subscription.

So many other services have buggy apps that constantly crash or gatekeep huge amounts of content behind even more premium subscriptions, or raise prices and ADD ads, then charge you EVEN MORE to remove the ads they didn't have in the beginning!

The reality is that media companies got too greedy with cable and continued to push prices until consumers simply couldn't take it anymore. When consumers started cutting chords and streaming, the big entertainment companies decided to adapt.

They switched their entire business models towards streaming, even going to the point of sabotaging their cable channels to make their streaming services more appealing. The problem is, the money doesn't work in the streaming landscape.

The big companies simply haven't figured out how to really be profitable with it, so they keep tweaking it and monetizeing it and enshittifying it while they continue to lose money and consumers get increasingly fed up. When they keep taking content down and shifting it around behind pay walls after I already pay for a subscription (like ESPN moving goal posts from ESPN 3 to ESPN+ to now some other premium ESPN product that I magically won't have access to with my subscription when my team's game is on it) is absoltely infuriating. When I can't get a consistent product for a consistent price going about things the legal way, I pirate.

Gaming is even worse about this, and gaming studios with their whole "buying doesn't mean you own it" philosophy are setting themselves up for an even worse fate.

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I wonder how many is this thread that use shady internet sites to stream pay content for free also have a lot to say about those grab and go videos of kids raiding stores?

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Bingo

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When it is easier to watch/stream via subscription than it is to pirate, I don't pirate.

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When it's easier to pay, I don't steal. When capitalism gets too capitalistic, I steal.

I feel attacked

i knew i had seen that gif somewhere before..

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So you don't love capitalism this time?

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i'm telling you shaming customers who have fatigue and look for other options vs using your '50 industry partners' to sue Egyptians over the fact they're filling a need is stupid.

i would say market forces are at work if people are finding ways around shitty products wouldnt you?

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For shows and sports the pirate sites have made it easier. You have one place that has literally everything.

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ding ding ding

circle takes the square.

now tell that '50 top streaming and industry types' who chased some poor rag heads out of their cave in Egypt to use that time & energy to fix their broken products.

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Add in how they seem to make the product lose some nice features every once and a while with the price raise, its absurd

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- Double down on ads
- Raise prices
- Add more restrictions to your shitty app that make it unstable and buffer or refuse to let you watch TV because you're in a hotel in Vegas instead of your house in Baton Rouge
- Cut off the ability to share the app or let your kids use it or install it on another TV when you're not at home
- Sue some Arabs on the other side of the world for finding a way to provide a couple of shitty streams
-???????


PROFIT!!!