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Originally Posted by FlamesPuck12
I probably pay 5 times more for school including residence than the students you know. I already work full time when I don't have school and I still need student loan to cover my education so yea $200 is a big change, which I do not spend every weekend.
The point of this thread was talking about illegal streams not whether or not an average student can afford $200 watch couple games.
My suggestion is that NHL make the game more available for more viewership which will lead to more advertising, less piracy. No matter how cheap they lower the gamecenter, people are going to pirate to watch for free so all I'm saying is that the NHL would be better off getting some money out by turning their viewership into advertisement revenue.
Also the cost of streaming is barely nothing compared to what they could obtain from advertising.
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And once again you demonstrate that you don't grasp the mass negatives here. It's all 'they could add this and gain from that' without consideration of the losses. Until you take that into consideration your premise is completely flawed.
Subscription revenues? Gone
Local TV deals? Completely undermined, to the point where I could honestly see local networks declining to broadcast at all in certain markets. Why pay the NHL, or incur the costs of production, when you lose the massive benefit of having a monopoly over free broadcasts in your region? At the very least it would significantly reduce the bargaining position of the NHL.
And you think the banner ads on online streams will replace those revenue streams?