A coalition of media companies and Egyptian authorities announced Wednesday that they’d taken down live sports-focused piracy network Streameast, which they said had hosted 1.6 billion visits across 80 associated domains over the past year.

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[–] kryllic@programming.dev 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Interesting quote at the bottom of the article:

A 2023 study found that 11% of U.S. adults (roughly 23 million) pirated content in the previous year. The NFL says it does not track illegal viewership of its games, though the league believes that new legal avenues to consume its broadcasts—such as direct-to-consumer streaming services, in addition to traditional TV packages—are lowering the reliance on unauthorized methods.

I can't decide if 11% is higher or lower than I expected, but also insightful that the NFL in particular doesn't seem to think this affects their bottom line much? Hard to believe since a sports streaming package can easily be triple digits and only go up year after year.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Remember though just because the organization doesnt think it hits their bottom line it doesn't mean their legal department will treat it as such.

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Those corporate lawyers need to prove to themselves that they aren't just a bullshit job

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

By punishing innocent people and ruining nice things! Fuck yeah! Which by graeber's taxonomy is not a bullshit job tbf.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

It doesn't affect their bottom line because they just keep raising the price so the bottom line stays the same.