‘RIP Streameast’: Largest Illicit Sports Streamer Is Shut Down
‘RIP Streameast’: Largest Illicit Sports Streamer Is Shut Down
A coalition of media companies and Egyptian authorities announced Wednesday that they’d taken down live sports-focused piracy network Streameast, which they said had hosted 1.6 billion visits across 80 associated domains over the past year.
RIP legend. StreamEast got me through 3 hockey seasons with little to no issues.
I've said it so many times: Offer me a legal season-long package for ONE team that includes all games priced around $100 and I'd instantly sign up. I don't want to jackass around with blackouts, 6 different apps / subscriptions, or pay an insanely-high amount of money to watch the whole league when I just want to follow my team.
The problem is that the sports industry has been propped up for decades with cable, where every subscriber paid fees for sports whether they cared about it or not. If they charged a reasonable price to just the people who care, it'd be a devastating loss. And cable was structured the way it was because that's what made the most money, and though cable's slowly being replaced by streaming, don't be shocked when the streaming landscape starts to take on a similar shape. There's already lots of bundling going on, remember when streaming meant that you could save a ton of money by just paying for what you wanted? They're going to do whatever they can to keep the revenue from falling.
But their revenue must fall, by any means.
It’s even worse for NBA basketball. You can pay for the entire league and it’s not too expensive, but they specifically black out the local or neighboring team. So you have to pay to watch every team except your own. It’s honestly completely absurd.
Sports fans are the most owned little bitches, i fucking swear. Every time i hear about this shit my brain lights up with irrational sadistic glee.
I dont even hate sports, i dont know why i feel this. Maybe its the oft neglected bully lobe of my brain seeing such an easy eager-to-be-abused target.
Best I can do is half the games spread over 4 streaming services.
OR what if we just punish and make it more miserable until you're resigned to failure and have to pay us for a whole-league package you won't use?
Jokes on yahoo...... streameast is far from being down.
they did it they saved sports
sportsurge.net has always been a good site for me
http://www.fawanews.sc/ has been my goto. Streaming quality isn't the best though.
Oh so they're offering a competitive way for me to watch hockey now? Because the last time I looked, it was either an absurdly expensive cable TV stuff with a bunch of stuff I'd never need, or an absurdly expensive per-game PPV fee.
Ah so that's why it wasn't working over the weekend. Shame to see it go. Rip!
Interesting quote at the bottom of the article:
A 2023 study found that 11% of U.S. adults (roughly 23 million) pirated content in the previous year. The NFL says it does not track illegal viewership of its games, though the league believes that new legal avenues to consume its broadcasts—such as direct-to-consumer streaming services, in addition to traditional TV packages—are lowering the reliance on unauthorized methods.
I can't decide if 11% is higher or lower than I expected, but also insightful that the NFL in particular doesn't seem to think this affects their bottom line much? Hard to believe since a sports streaming package can easily be triple digits and only go up year after year.
It doesn't affect their bottom line because they just keep raising the price so the bottom line stays the same.
Anyone know a way I'll be able to watch streams of NHL games after they're finished? I'm in the UK and can't realistically watch games that start at 3am. Waiting to see the inevitable price rise now that nhl.tv is going to dazn and I miss the days of Lazyman.
sport-video.org.ua or optionally you can use Stremio with the MediaFusion addon which sources VOD torrents from them.
Sport-video is fantastic. Sucks that the creator got drafted to fight for Ukraine but his wife has been doing a great job running the site
I went the IPTV route for football season and likely will be rolling that into hockey as well.
66 I think has replays on its paid tier.
It has now been labeled an exStreamEast
F U C K
oh no not the concussion ball
what will the navy fly its oppression thopters over now?
There’s… other sports besides American Football
i'm laughing at the american football fans
fans of real football disregard
They’re tripping if they think I’m going to pay. I’ll just follow updates online before I pay to watch. Fucking MLS is $15 a month, MLS. The retirement league is $15 a month. Their hubris has no end. They get enough money from advertising that they could air the games for free but greed is all they hear.