Football and other premium TV being pirated at 'industrial scale'

[Jirel]

4. Good.

Those leeches should lose money. Sports casting should not be “premium,” have blackouts, etc. Taxes pay for that useless stupidity, from giving teams nearly free arenas, to paying for traffic control in cities around those events, to upgrading parking facilities, transit, and entertainment districts. People lose their homes to construction to support sports teams. People living or working near stadiums deal with parking nightmares and jacked up prices. The more money lost by teams and sportscasting, the happier I am.

As for other “premium tv” losses, give me a break. TV used to be paid for by ads. Then cable came on the scene with the promise that because it was pay tv, there would be no ads. Then the promise was “less” ads. Then it was as ad-filled as any broadcast tv with ever rising prices. Then streaming came along, so people have to pay for subscription after subscription, often on top of cable they already pay for, if they want specific shows. I have no sympathy for the whining of media execs on this. If people can pirate it, more power to them.