Then the streams are on sites with names like fins38gy2m.ws a new URL for every game.
The hosts of the streams can set up an URL days in advance, and post it to the aggregators at the start of the game.
Anecdotally: oh yes. I don’t know anybody who pays, although that may say more about the populations I work with and hang out with.
I hear there’s plenty of headroom for the direct economics to work, if you’re reselling for less than the ~EUR100/month range the commercial providers charge [1]. Gross median income in Spain is on the order of EUR27000 annually, for reference [2]—so I’m not sure how many of the pirate viewers would be able to afford the legit product if the pirate channels dried up.
I also hear [0] there’s a robust side trade in exploiting pirate viewers’ machines though malware-style techniques while they’re there and feeling enticed to click yes to things…
[0] https://www.webroot.com/blog/2021/05/12/we-explored-the-dang...
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LaLiga/comments/1fksf3i/how_much_do...
[2] https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/en/operacion.htm?c=Estadist...
Note that the ads were for things like VPN providers and pirate IPTV feed services, which people are willing to pay for.
Sorry, you mean WhatsApp detects and prevents the sharing of piracy links? I wasn’t aware of this, good to know. Is there a source of the various checks they have like this?
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_generation_algorithm
