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If you were able to livestream a concert or baseball game on your phone, that's not the same as piracy - it's just a broadcast that is prohibited by the venue's rules. It's not explicitly against the law. The company/venue that would ban your streaming, however, has every opportunity (and some would argue obligation) to provide a superior viewing experience vis a vis 5+ cameras, commentary team, interviews on the field, on-screen graphics, etc.
Online streaming video Piracy is bad insofar as you're providing a near-perfect quality exact replication of the broadcast. It is a morally ambiguous area for me so long as you are not making DVDs and selling them, or selling access to your website that streams the content, etc. I do wish some of these pirate websites would at least attempt to do a value add to some of the content - perhaps provide some subtitles in Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese or other languages, instead of just a copy/paste job of the live broadcast.
In this day and age, the year of our lord 2023, it's not our fault if wrestling companies can't/won't get product placements, on-screen ads, etc, to supplement their non-PIP ad revenue. When Sockface & Pals are shilling DraftKings, that usually isn't cut out of the pirated broadcast, it's left in tact. So.....do more of that. More on-screen ads, put some ads up on the barricades surrounding the ring area, and so on
Thank you, I love you all.
