<story><title>We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates</title><url>https://www.mux.com/blog/how-content-moderation-rescued-750k-in-unpaid-invoices-from-soccer-pirates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esharte</author><text>If you lived in the UK, supported Tottenham and wanted to watch all their games in the 2021&amp;#x2F;22 season you had to:&lt;p&gt;Subscribe to Sky Sports (around £50-60 a month) for the Premier League games.&lt;p&gt;Subscribe to BT Sports (30 a month) for the Saturday early kick off Premier League games and the Europa Conference League games.&lt;p&gt;Subscribe to Amazon Prime for the 3 random weeks when they are showing the Premier League games instead of Sky.&lt;p&gt;Subscribe to Premier Sports (£12 a month) to see a Europa Conference League 2 legged qualifier.&lt;p&gt;And even then you couldn&amp;#x27;t see all the games legally in the UK because of the 3pm Saturday black out. You are forced to find a stream from another country where they are broadcasting the game.&lt;p&gt;Then when you are subscriped you get wall to wall gambling adverts during half time. For every other product you subscribe to, it is to avoid ads, but not television.</text></item><item><author>emacdona</author><text>Sigh... f*ck sports leagues&amp;#x2F;governing bodies. The reason some honest people pirate streams for sporting events is because they make it so annoying to pay for them. Some examples...&lt;p&gt;I live in the US.&lt;p&gt;I briefly took an interest in the EPL. If I wanted to watch all EPL games (or have the option of watching any particular EPL game), I&amp;#x27;d have to subscribe to Peacock _and_ Fubo -- and I&amp;#x27;m still not sure that gets me all games.&lt;p&gt;I briefly took an interest in the NHL (this was years ago, granted -- things may have changed). If I would have subscribed to their service, the ONLY team whose home games I couldn&amp;#x27;t watch would have been the TEAM OF THE CITY I LIVE IN (i.e.: &amp;quot;my&amp;quot; team).&lt;p&gt;My two favorite sports, though, are Cycling and F1.&lt;p&gt;I LOVE cycling. To watch every UCI race, I&amp;#x27;d have to subscribe to GCN+ (they have the Giro), Peacock (they have the Tour de France and La Vuelta), and Flobikes (they have most of the Classics races).&lt;p&gt;THE ONLY sports governing body that has figured this out (for sports I like, anyway), is F1. I pay F1.com $80 a year and get MORE content than I would if I watched the races on ESPN. I can see EVERY RACE, EVERY QUALIFYING, EVERY PRACTICE. I can even choose WHOSE car I want to see the first person view from.&lt;p&gt;If you want to &amp;quot;stop pirates&amp;quot;, make it easy for them to give you money and watch their favorite sport.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>temp_praneshp</author><text>If you watch Tottenham despite all that, you deserve the pain their football causes.&lt;p&gt;Jokes apart, is the BT Sports &amp;quot;early kick off games&amp;quot; completely different from the Sky Sports game you mentioned? That&amp;#x27;s ridiculous. I was in England in Summer 2019 for the cricket world cup, and was shocked at how difficult it was to watch the games on TV. Wimbledon was very easy though, so maybe Tennis is way more popular?</text></comment>
<story><title>We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates</title><url>https://www.mux.com/blog/how-content-moderation-rescued-750k-in-unpaid-invoices-from-soccer-pirates</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>esharte</author><text>If you lived in the UK, supported Tottenham and wanted to watch all their games in the 2021&amp;#x2F;22 season you had to:&lt;p&gt;Subscribe to Sky Sports (around £50-60 a month) for the Premier League games.&lt;p&gt;Subscribe to BT Sports (30 a month) for the Saturday early kick off Premier League games and the Europa Conference League games.&lt;p&gt;Subscribe to Amazon Prime for the 3 random weeks when they are showing the Premier League games instead of Sky.&lt;p&gt;Subscribe to Premier Sports (£12 a month) to see a Europa Conference League 2 legged qualifier.&lt;p&gt;And even then you couldn&amp;#x27;t see all the games legally in the UK because of the 3pm Saturday black out. You are forced to find a stream from another country where they are broadcasting the game.&lt;p&gt;Then when you are subscriped you get wall to wall gambling adverts during half time. For every other product you subscribe to, it is to avoid ads, but not television.</text></item><item><author>emacdona</author><text>Sigh... f*ck sports leagues&amp;#x2F;governing bodies. The reason some honest people pirate streams for sporting events is because they make it so annoying to pay for them. Some examples...&lt;p&gt;I live in the US.&lt;p&gt;I briefly took an interest in the EPL. If I wanted to watch all EPL games (or have the option of watching any particular EPL game), I&amp;#x27;d have to subscribe to Peacock _and_ Fubo -- and I&amp;#x27;m still not sure that gets me all games.&lt;p&gt;I briefly took an interest in the NHL (this was years ago, granted -- things may have changed). If I would have subscribed to their service, the ONLY team whose home games I couldn&amp;#x27;t watch would have been the TEAM OF THE CITY I LIVE IN (i.e.: &amp;quot;my&amp;quot; team).&lt;p&gt;My two favorite sports, though, are Cycling and F1.&lt;p&gt;I LOVE cycling. To watch every UCI race, I&amp;#x27;d have to subscribe to GCN+ (they have the Giro), Peacock (they have the Tour de France and La Vuelta), and Flobikes (they have most of the Classics races).&lt;p&gt;THE ONLY sports governing body that has figured this out (for sports I like, anyway), is F1. I pay F1.com $80 a year and get MORE content than I would if I watched the races on ESPN. I can see EVERY RACE, EVERY QUALIFYING, EVERY PRACTICE. I can even choose WHOSE car I want to see the first person view from.&lt;p&gt;If you want to &amp;quot;stop pirates&amp;quot;, make it easy for them to give you money and watch their favorite sport.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>emacdona</author><text>Infuriating. I was pissed because I couldn&amp;#x27;t easily watch &amp;quot;all games in a given league&amp;quot;. You only want to watch your team, and you STILL have to pay for four services to get &amp;quot;most&amp;quot; of the games.</text></comment>