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Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat
They're not ridiculous. You can watch games on television.
It protects the team's lucrative regional TV deals. Those deals would be worth much less if the NHL opened it up with no blackouts.
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I understand why the regional deals are important and lucrative, but I don't like having to buy a bunch of nonsense just to get one particular product. Especially when that same product is available to others in a more direct, efficient, and affordable manner. The league still makes money off of subscriptions, and eventually (hopefully) the potential revenue from subscriptions can offset the revenue from the traditional cable deals as that delivery method continues to die off.
Live sports is one of the few remaining products that the cable companies can use to tie you to an old fashioned cable package. Other television shows and movies are all legally available a la carte through iTunes, Netflix, etc., so I can see why people get frustrated when artificial barriers are put up to protect an old business model.