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Cloudflare Reports Surge in Streaming Piracy Takedowns, Removes 20k+ Storage Accounts
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I think pirating sports has gone mainstream. At Thanksgiving I watched my uncle who struggles with Bluetooth pull up a pirated football stream in 30 seconds.
Piracy is purely a economic issue
Make legally watching sports easier and piracy will drop
Football is one of the most complicated things to watch. There are so many possible and expensive services that one needs to sign up for just to watch a specific game. It’s like they don’t want people to watch 4 hours of commercials.
And he probably got 13 viruses in the process