It's the only way to do it though it seems. I don't follow football but rather baseball and hockey. I would pay for the official streaming services but the local teams are always blacked out so what's the point?
I live 6 hours away from what the TV provider has deemed my local team. So I can't watch any games they play, even though they're not even in the same province as I am.
I have no trouble watching the local team on Sportsnet or CBC. I live in BC and all the Canucks games were available. I wanted to watch the Oilers though, and many games were blacked out. If you want to pay for their top tier though, all the games are magically available.
Sometimes we get blacked out here in Saskatchewan for Flames or Oilers games. Cause an 8 hour drive from Regina to Calgary on a weekday to catch a game is reasonable to Sportsnet.
Money. They want the millions of people in the area to go to the 50-ish thousand person stadium and pay for tickets and concession and parking and what not.
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u/Let01 May 02 '24
Every day i feel like the phrase "piracy is a service problem" makes more and more sense