On Jan 30, 2012 10:10 AM, "Raymond E. Feist" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Jan 30, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Jason Green wrote:
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> > Now I'm thinking of relocating to the UK for 2 minutes, too...
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> > I went through a similar issue with the NBA. I'm a Lakers fan. But I
refuse to pay for cable. I don't want to pay $1500 a year for a bunch of
TV channels that I don't care about. I cut the cord on cable about 5 years
ago, and replaced it with Netflix and Hulu+ - now my total cost each year
is under $150. But - no Lakers games.
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> > The nice thing is - the NBA has a "League Pass" subscription, where you
can pay (it's about $200) to watch up to 7 of your favorite teams. That
seems reasonable to me (YMMV) as I love watching basketball. So I paid my
$200 and got ready to watch some Lakers! Everything is great, right?
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> > Nope. Sadly, since I live in the Lakers broadcast area, their games
are blacked out locally.
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> > So, a product that I want, which I could easily obtain illegally (there
are dozens of streaming services out there) but which I prefer to pay for,
I can't get. So, I cheated. I paid for a VPN service, spoofed my IP
address so it looked like it was in San Francisco (outside of the Lakers
broadcast area), and got it that way.
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> > I hope Nat is right. I would gladly pay to watch, and I don't like
illegal downloading.
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> That's because KCAL (Disney) and Fox Sports Prime Time have paid serious
money to the Lakers (and Clippers) for the rights to that region. They
don't want you watching video streaming via NBA League Pass because each
viewer who does that isn't watching local TV, which means ratings are going
down and advertising revenue with it. Simple fiscal reasoning.
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> Best, R.E.F.
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> Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by
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Yep. I'm wondering if that's going to change next year when they get their
own network.
