12-16-2020, 07:29 PM
(12-16-2020, 05:47 PM)Tyler Wrote: Well, their streams have functionality (like the ability to pause, rewind, and start from the beginning) that most of the normal sketchy ones do not. So I suspect they're definitely doing something unique here. They're being creative about it to minimize legal exposure (they seem to have been around for a while, so it seems to be working), but there will always be a risk of it being taken down at some point.
From an end-user perspective, it seems like a low risk for the price as long as you're ok with the premise. And I've gotta say that Sinclair isn't making it very easy to be noble about it.
Right so they get an NBA stream, maybe they get an international one and so they don't have any blackouts? At any rate they use CDNs and all that stuff to store the videos on their own platforms so that they can rebroadcast. Definitely worth paying for bc you get a better product. I am not thrilled ab having to do this but I feel sort of backed against the wall. I also feel like this is a short-term problem bc either Sinclair will do direct to consumer or get back onto these streaming services or both within the next year.