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Tom Brady: I Watched Super Bowl Last Year On Illegal Website

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NEW YORK (AP) — With the Super Bowl days away, federal authorities announced a crackdown Thursday on websites that stream unauthorized broadcasts of sports events just hours after New England quarterback Tom Brady told reporters in Indianapolis that he watched last year’s game on an illegal site.
Investigators seized 16 sites and brought criminal charges against a Michigan man who controlled nine of them.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara warned sports fans in a release that piracy costs sports leagues and broadcasters millions of dollars, forcing increases in ticket prices and other costs to consumers.
His message came soon after Brady casually mentioned his own use of illegal websites during a news conference staged in preparation for the Super Bowl on Sunday between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants.
“Last year I was rehabbing my foot in Costa Rica, watching the game on an illegal Super Bowl website. And now I’m actually playing in the game. So, it’s pretty cool,” Brady said.


http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2012/02/03/brady-i-watched-super-bowl-last-year-on-illegal-website/
 
boomhower said:
It's OTA, I don't get the big deal.
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It's just publicity stunt. And it's not OTA for people outside the US. The only people it's harming are the NFL fans outside the US.

Good thing FirstRow Sports is still up. They took down couple of FirstRow sites but not all. I have that site bookmarked on all my computers, phones, and tablets.
 
Any lost revenue they talk about is bullshit. Those who watch it online usually can't get it ota.
 
Dulanic said:
Any lost revenue they talk about is bullshit. Those who watch it online usually can't get it ota.
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It's not about the Superbowl. This just gives them publicity and exposure. Sports are the only thing that keeps people from dropping cable or satellite TV. People have options for TV and movies like Netflix, Hulu, etc but not sports. These sports streaming sites are breaking down the last barrier people need to completely drop cable. Between OTA, FirstRow, and ESPN3, you can get 99% of your sports fix without the need for cable now.
 
ponyo said:
It's not about the Superbowl. This just gives them publicity and exposure. Sports are the only thing that keeps people from dropping cable or satellite TV. People have options for TV and movies like Netflix, Hulu, etc but not sports. These sports streaming sites are breaking down the last barrier people need to completely drop cable. Between OTA, FirstRow, and ESPN3, you can get 99% of your sports fix without the need for cable now.
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Great point. I'm not much of a "watch sports on television" type of person; and have been debating dumping the lower tier of directv that we have, in favor of the highest package of broadband available & just relying on Hulu & netflix.
 
The only legal option is to switch to Direct TV and buy the NFL package, sucks if you live in a condo or apt and that's impossible to do. The technology clearly exists to sell these games on a PPV basis but Direct TV forked over 4 BILLION dollars for the exclusive rights so if you use cable your screwed, I would much rather pay $4.99/game to watch an out of market game on my "47 TV than scrounge around for a crappy quality unreliable stream but thanks to the NFL's greed that's not gonna happen..
 
BUTCH1 said:
The only legal option is to switch to Direct TV and buy the NFL package, sucks if you live in a condo or apt and that's impossible to do. The technology clearly exists to sell these games on a PPV basis but Direct TV forked over 4 BILLION dollars for the exclusive rights so if you use cable your screwed, I would much rather pay $4.99/game to watch an out of market game on my "47 TV than scrounge around for a crappy quality unreliable stream but thanks to the NFL's greed that's not gonna happen..
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Not true. You can still watch it online. It's the first time they are doing it online and is why they are legally protecting their product. It's not greed to protect your product.

http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/46/live/sunday
 
Do the "pirated" streams include all of the original TV commercials? If not, I do understand the "loss of revenue" argument and the NFL's need to crack down.
 
IcePickFreak said:
People actually buy stuff or services based on TV commercials? Suckers.
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The advertisers pay tons of money for those slots, and the SB is one of the few occasions where the commercials are actually watched for the most part. I don't know the numbers, but I am sure a successful ad campaign beginning on SB Sunday does lead to increased sales.
 
IndyColtsFan said:
The NFL should take immediate action and suspend him for today's game.






:awe:
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I like the way you think

IndyColtsFan said:
The advertisers pay tons of money for those slots, and the SB is one of the few occasions where the commercials are actually watched for the most part. I don't know the numbers, but I am sure a successful ad campaign beginning on SB Sunday does lead to increased sales.
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Not to mention all the possible exposure from the inevitable "Best/worse superbowl ads" discussions on TVs, the internet and around the water cooler at work
 
I don't have a problem with them complaining about the streams, but I don't think we should be wasting time worrying about streamers of the super bowl. Why should taxpayer money be used for this? We have enough problems. They can go fuck themselves. Useless television that does nothing for our country except raise people onto a pedestal for throwing a ball and running it up and down a field. We need to have a Superbowl of engineering or medicine...Something that actually fucking matters.
 
Spacehead said:
Is that free to watch?
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Yes, the game is free to watch.

http://www.sbnation.com/2012-super-bowl/2012/2/5/2765088/watch-superbowl-online-live-stream

MotF Bane- "How about the regular season, to watch any game you want, including out of market? "

Name me a single cable/sat/OTA carrier that provides all out of market games for free? The point of this thread wasn't the regular season but the Super Bowl that is tonight. The NFL/NBC is providing the game for free online via live streaming. The NFL is protecting its intellectual property by cutting off illegal streams. It's loss revenue and ratings if you have people watching online illegally with no ability to track actual steams viewed.
 
Even if you can get to watch a "legal" stream via Direct TV online you still have to buy the whole NFL ticket, that's like a cable co. forcing you to buy dozens of PPV movies in a "package" costing hundreds to have access to the 7-8 you actually want to watch, rip-off IMO..
 
ponyo said:
It's not about the Superbowl. This just gives them publicity and exposure. Sports are the only thing that keeps people from dropping cable or satellite TV. People have options for TV and movies like Netflix, Hulu, etc but not sports. These sports streaming sites are breaking down the last barrier people need to completely drop cable. Between OTA, FirstRow, and ESPN3, you can get 99% of your sports fix without the need for cable now.
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this. the only reason i care about cable is live hockey. i can get center ice and gets lots of hockey...but the local team gets me like a 2 day blackout to watch the games or something so i havent bothered
 
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