Have you no morals? Do you not care about the livelihood of the employees of the Larry Miller group? Not just the players but the employees, the cameramen, the sideline reporters, everyone behind the scenes, they all are paid by proceeds from ticket and cable charges. I don't know what you do for a living, but how would it feel if you lost your job because someone started offering whatever you produce for free?
Wow, this was going to be sarcastic, but i actually meant every word. Piracy is wrong, and no, I don't feel comfortable watching the pirate movies, even the cute ones.
I don't have a problem watching pirated stuff here's why.
1. I would love to pay for NBA league pass broadband and watch the Jazz from the comfort of my home legally and legitimately. The problem is I live within 150 miles of SLC so, most of the games would be blacked out.
2. I don't have cable television service nor will I. I can watch stuff legally from all of the major networks' websites (for free) as well as Hulu (also for free), Amazon Video (mostly for free or cheap) or Netflix (don't have it right now, but would if I was "desperate") I watch A LOT of tv shows and movies, I see most of the films in movie theaters and I see most of the tv shows from their websites or hulu. The one area where I can't legitimately watch online is Sports.
3. I don't want to go to the arena every time there is a home game I want to watch, that gets expensive, fast.
4. If there is a "pirated" stream somewhere. Someone is watching it "legitimately". Do you think about the livelihoods of those camera people/producers of the Jazz broadcast (or any sports broadcast) when a lot of people who "could" be watching the game don't? How many people pay for sports programming and don't watch every single Jazz game or every single sports event? I would say that cable companies are getting their money and so are the Jazz and Jazz broadcasters. If they weren't, then you wouldn't be able to watch games as it is.
5. If more people watched pirated streams, maybe sports would get off their "hey, let's black out these games for fans that want to spend money on our product". Attendance to games are not suffering. Making Blackout regions 150 miles from the arena is ridiculous.
When I don't have any problem forking over money when the product is worth my time. Right now, I will pirate stream any sports event. They are not making it easy to have me as a customer so I'll watching illegally. I don't lose sleep at night over not paying 150 dollars a month for cable just to watch Jazz games 6 months out of a year. Sorry.