Update: Comcast sucks the big fat one

Is it legal to steam things such as NBA games over the internet free of charge? If not, I can understand why they would ban people.

Overall I hate Comcast, but I know if customers were giving my product away for free over the internet, I would be pissed to no end!

 

It isn't legal at all and it costs them ad revenue.

 

How does it cost them ad revenue when the people wouldn't be able to watch it in the first place? The people that get the comcast stream are seeing commercials they otherwise wouldn't be. They are costing themselves ad revenue by not making a deal with Directv and others.

I can understand people doing it because of no deal being done with satellite and some can't get it any other way, but of course that doesn't make it right.

 

She looks great at a distance but up close she has flaws. Theres another RG staff that has a much better body than her and she wears spandex black pants every game. It shows off her booty quite nicely.

P.S. Zagsfan you know whom I am talking about.

 

Aren't you the guy who's in love with all the chubbies?

 

Because I'd wager some of those people who are watching those streams (and I'd say probably more than some) are able to get comcast - they just choose to stick with their current provider or left Comcast for some other reason.

As to whether they're costing themselves ad revenue that is up for debate. Is it Directv/Dish or Comcast? I'd bet it is a combination of both parties being extremely stubborn and not wanting to budge.

Comcast probably isn't 'hunting down' these streams, but rather they probably do have a few people watching message boards across the web. Considering that the streams to the Blazers games are posted on at least four message boards and Blazersedge as well people are basically asking for it to be shutdown. Since I imagine that many of the people streaming are actually using their own Comcast bandwidth (and time of course) that now has a monthly limit (and is starting to get throttled regardless of what Comcast says) more and more streamers are going to get frustrated and just stop altogether. Especially since they get shit on by a lot of people in their chats who are benefiting from the streamer's generosity.

 

So you are saying they are losing ad revenue not from the games, which the people will see either way, but from other programing during the day/nite that if the people that could get comcast would see?

 

Sure Comcast's prices are higher then I'd like, but prices for almost everything are higher than I'd like. I'm happy with Comcast (tv, phone, internet).

 

No.. they're losing ad revenue from the games. Ad revenue is how much they sell ad time for to companies during certain time slots. So more viewers during Blazer games justifies a higher price for the companies purchasing ad space during Blazer games (most likely targeting the male 18-36 viewers) and less viewers lowers the price at which they can sell slots for advertisements.

Since someone streaming the game to hundreds/thousands of people online is not counted towards total number of viewers (look at it like having hundreds to thousands of people in your living room - it is only being counted as your normal house hold total since they don't know you have hundreds/thousands of people in your living room) it costs them ad revenue. So you see that those people who COULD purchase Comcast but choose not to and instead watch streams online are costing Comcast money.

It is the same basic reason as to why NBA League Pass has a 150 mile blackout radius for local teams.

 

id probably just leave the picture with out the text...where can i goto get that printed out?

 

So Blazers are OK sending out a threratening email and taking legal action against a team that intentionally screws them, but comcast sucks for blocking their broadcast on the internet?