I’m not a huge hockey fan but this is just wrong, i’m sorry but it is. Fuck Rogers and Bell. Hockey Night in Canada on the CBC is a god damn Canadian tradition. I don’t care who you are, fan or not, you know that theme. this is just completely wrong.
Time to nationalize Rogers, Telus and Bell.
They shouldn’t’ve been allowed to become private in the first place.
BCTEL sold to Telus
AGS was ruined, becoming Telus
MTS was sold to Bell.There is an argument that Telus has breached the initial sales agreement that stated that BCTel was to be the primary company in the merger.
Real talk: we need a public option to compete with private options, but it should not be all national or all private.
The reason is that corporations will have a tendency to drive prices up, while the government will have a tendency to cut costs.
See: Canada Post, how it regulates the shipping and mail market, and how disabling it or shutting it down will be terrible for pricing and availability.
Rogers taking away Canadian culture
O Canada Where Rogers rules the land True patriot love For $90 bucks a month From far and wide We let them buy For corporate wealth and greed Conglomerate, Assimilate So nothing else is free God keep Rogers Strong and dominant O Canada A Rogers Subsid’ry O Canada! A Rogers Subsid’ry!
Sooo they just want us to pirate it now? I mean, if they wanted money they wouldn’t have removed it from the way they were getting money.
Now there’s no easy way for us to watch hockey at all.
Americans can watch PWHL games live on YouTube, bût we’re stuck with Bell and Rogers for everything.
Torrents are an easy way to watch hockey.
Torrents are not a good medium for live streaming though. Who wants to wait until after the game is over to watch it?
You can stream many torrents. That may be what the person you responded to meant but there’s also just straight up free streaming of sports events. sportsurge dot net is one that I use regularly when blackouts prevent me from watching stuff. It’s really more of a link aggregator than a streaming service but you can find the sites that work through it. Ad blockers are essential to this process as with most things these days.
Streaming a torrent, in this context, would mean to start downloading a torrent at the first block working your way to the end, and to start watching before the download is complete. It’s possible to do.
But steaming in the context you’re replying to means to broadcast a signal as it’s occuring. Sending the start before the end has even happened yet. As far as I know, there are no torrent-like systems that support uploading things before the file has ended. Torrents in particular need a list of all the blocks of a file, with their checksum for integrity checks, before they can be created, and so definitely can’t support streaming upload.
Look into IPTV, I’ve been told people pay $7 a month for every channel, Pay per view events, even movies etc all included. Gives Sunday ticket and center ice package, all games, everything. I won’t give Rogers a dime personally.
I’m Canadian. I knew this was coming based on the fact that I haven’t been able to watch the Canadian National Football Championship on TV for about the last ten years or so. You have to have a paid subscription to TSN in order to watch the Grey Cup. What a farce.
Good riddance. Anyhow big megacorps (either media or sports) have too much power anyhow.
