Petty Thieves and others...

[Los Feliz Slim]

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you are not a better person than anyone that does pirate songs/live feeds/movies off the web.

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I actually think I'm probably a better person than most of these people, but the pirating has nothing to do with it. I'm just a pretty good guy. And everybody else needs to worry about their own [censored], and I will worry about mine, and that's that.

But you, Sykes, were the one that assumed anyone critical of stealing the broadcast must be a hypocrite w/r/t the theft of intellectual property. You were mistaken.

[danielkomen]

Did ESPN make it available for free or was there some oversees site streaming it illegally?

[TMTTR]

Never mind. I misread earlier posts.

[StuckaRack]

I would have gladly paid for it.

But my dog ate my credit card.

[Jazzy3113]

you know what i dont get? there are some smart hackers out there who are skilled enough to hack the feed and then our so generous to give out the link. i dont get em but i love em. just like the people who get movies in theater out to the net with dvd quality FOR FREE. god bless em

[RacersEdge]

Stealing is just so non-baller.

[luckyjimm]

I am really confused by the existence of the free feeds.

There were two links posted on this board and elsewhere. One was an ESPN link - presumably someone bought the pay-per-view then posted the link, and hundreds used it for free.

Then there was the Channel link (can't remember the full address) which was a site offering streaming videos from lots of TV channels, including the final table.

In the first case, I don't understand how ESPN didn't shut it down. They had about 18 hours for goodness sake. If a password to an adult site is shared, an IP log will pick up it is being used by many people and automatically shut it down. Why didn't ESPN do the same thing?

In the second case, could someone tell me what that Channel site was - how come it had the feed? Is it basically a bootleg/hacked site that channels/provides a proxy access point to the feed one person bought?

I am amazed so many people were able to watch it for free, when with basic software ESPN could have blocked it. All the more so when the commentators referred to the WSOP heads monitoring 2+2 at the time. Surely they could and should have requested this site take down the links at the time - why didn't they?

[TxRedMan]

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Stealing like this from a huge corporation who wouldn't be here without us is just so baller.

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FYP.

[metsfan88]

i fell asleep right before heads up started, anyone know if they are coming out with the full broadcast on dvd?

[Sparki]

I knew that you had to pay to watch it on TV but I had no idea you were supposed to pay to watch it online. I just got the link from a friend. oops.