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[-] LordFireCrotch@lemmy.today 106 points 4 days ago

Imagine subscribing to anything in 2026 🏴‍☠️

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 101 points 4 days ago

I only have one subscription and it's to your mom's OnlyFans account.

[-] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago

🏴‍☠️that too.

[-] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Y'all subscribe for OF content?

M8y, yer need to sail moar seas!

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago

I just want to support a hard working professional.

[-] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

I think you forgot a comma.

[-] DeLancre@piefed.social 18 points 3 days ago

Music services still pretty useful. I'm using deezer for example, it can stream lossless audio and kinda okay with "radio" mode. Used spotify before, but it infuriated me by suggesting same music I already heard for 20-50 times. It's like at some point it just traps you in your own bubble of 100-200 songs.

The alternative would be downloading thousands of albums in flac and uploading to multiple devices. Plus you need to add new music, which includes searching for that mentioned music. So yeah, nah, I'm okay with paying subscription for now. Until they eventually go to shit like video services did. Then we will need to come up with "popcorn time" alternative for music I guess.

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[-] stolig@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

These greedy sports teams are going to lose our young people since they can’t watch… and they won’t have many fans in the future

It's a microcosm of...points at everything everywhere.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Football and basketball are still good, but pretty sure baseball is losing popularity especially amount younger fans. This isn't helping either.

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[-] Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 3 days ago

Reading this thread makes me so happy I long ago lost interest in watching sports. It sounds like a complete headache to be a fan of any sport these days.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago

It's all advertisement anyway.

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[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago

It was already worse than 2 subscriptions before... now they ensured that people who are dumb enough to give them money could not say "well, I guess I can skip Monday games"

So they have segmented the broadcast further; showing zero care or respect for their customer base in Canada

In time this will backfire badly. We used to be a fam who watched Hockey when our kids were little, because of that my now grown son had asked to "get back into it" (we had already given up) so we pirated the feeds because it's cheaper and better service than any official broadcast partner. He could not believe we needed to check the NHL site to find out which service was carrying "today's game"

It is easy to see how so many families would just decide to go without and the fan-hood that is passed from parents to kids as they watched sports as a family would be over. Even now, most of my sons' friends could not care less about Hockey which was definitely not the case in my generation. Good job Bettman!

[-] mtpender@piefed.world 33 points 3 days ago

In Australia, national sports like AFL, NRL and cricket are legally required to broadcast on free-to-air television.

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago
[-] mtpender@piefed.world 8 points 3 days ago

LOL, we also get free healthcare.

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

Funny how pirating is so hard in sports of all things.

[-] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

It's because people only want live feeds. If sports fans were content with recordings, it would be as easy as for everything else.

[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Live and with no delay on top of it.

They get pissed if they hear about the gaol 1 minute earlier.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I gave in and paid for Sportsnet again this summer after trying for months to find a way to stream baseball games that worked for me. couldn't find anything.

I hate the Sportsnet experience. it's fucking terrible as a user. constant disconnections to what I am actively watching, or coming back to after pausing for ten minutes

this year I paid for the summer. next year I'll just not watch baseball, I guess. which sucks, but if they won't let me watch it without constant issues...

[-] tripledip@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Same deal with F1, couldnt renew my F1 sub without getting apple TV. Ive never owned an apple product in my life, not gonna sub to their garbage. Bye F1tv.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 19 points 3 days ago

What really pisses me off is having lived in Las Vegas, where they shut the whole Strip and a bunch of surrounding areas down for this race. Not sure if they do it every time but they also shut down the famous Bellagio fountains and covered the view with ugly scaffolding!

For the race itself, not only can you only watch it via a subscription stream, they also block off any local infrastructure with a view, such as the pedestrian bridges, so that the only eyes able to actually see the thing happen in our own city on our own streets paid ~$2000 for the privilege.

The classism on display is insane. The city is all about entertaining the obscenely wealthy globalist class, and the people that make it all run are serfs.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

F1 is enshittified boring shit anyway.

[-] Lenggo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

While it pains me to mention reddit, a certain sub has allowed me to watch basically any region or subscription locked broadcast for F1 and IMSA event I've wanted for a while. Just need to make sure the ad blocker is up. There is zero chance I'm subbing to Peacock to watch a handful of sportscar races throughout the year

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[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 4 days ago

Europeans trying to watch all their football team's games: First time?

Europeans trying to watch all their football team's games:

Just two subs?!?!

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

But isn’t that because of different leagues and cup tournaments. In the US they split the games from a single league across different subscriptions. At least in my country in Europe the main football league is just one subscription.

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[-] trashboat@piefed.social 18 points 3 days ago

Watching every NFL game in the US has become like 5+ subscriptions

[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Damn I just assumed plopping down $450 for Sunday Ticket got you every game, but it doesn’t include primetime games at all!?!

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

They've continually devalued Sunday ticket as a product. I'm surprised Google isn't more pissed about it, as they paid a fuck load for the rights to be the exclusive seller.

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[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

How Expensive is it to Watch the Entire Pokemon Anime Legally?

He ends up with $1195, which includes some Japanese dvd exclusives, but seriously what the fuck.

[-] TheKracken@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Might want to clean up your link. It points to your YouTube account.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Thanks. Sneaky bullshit.

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I would never give these billionaire fucks a dime. I'd rather go watch beer leagues at the local rink.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

My dad has been complaining about this kind of thing for baseball. The subscription to watch games online specifically blacks out home games because..l fuck you I guess? He’s paying for the service but he still needs to either use a VPN or pirate just to watch some of the games.

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I think the NFL was 7 that you needed if you wanted to watch every game. It's crazy. And they play some games internationally now so some games air at really weird times.

[-] onTerryO@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

Me: Well, at least I can watch for free on CBC on Saturday nights.

Rogers: Yoink!

[-] cattywampas@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Welcome to watching sports in 2026 😭

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh is this another one of those shitty things we have been leading the world with in the UK?

I think we've had as many as 4 subscriptions to legally watch all the broadcasted* matches of a top flight football team some years

*You still miss half the matches played because of the Saturday 3pm blackout, which prohibits those matches being broadcast

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

They are just begging for you to find a good pirate service and stop giving them money... you should definitely honour their wishes

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[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

ESPN+ was actually good if your team is in another TV market, but not broadcasting all the national playoff games was ridiculous - cancelled it.

I’m very close to Canada, bought try an antenna to grab the CBC broadcast.

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[-] uuj8za@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago

Just need 1 subscription to an IPTV service. I'm using BunnyTV, what are other folks using?

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