HACKER Q&A
📣 olalonde

Why is it so difficult to find online streams for the World Cup?


I've been trying to find ways to stream the World Cup in English and it's a royal PITA. I'm currently in the Caribbeans and none of the streaming service I've tried will let me sign up due to my location. Is there any streaming service that isn't geo-restricted? Why isn't there an (ad-supported) global stream? It's 2022...


  👤 detaro Accepted Answer ✓
> Why isn't there an (ad-supported) global stream?

Because then companies would pay less for exclusive broadcast rights and FIFA primarily cares about money?


👤 simonblack
Money, of course.

If you want to see it, you have to pay. You might want to do things your way, but I venture to say that in your area there will be an exclusive source that will fix what you see, how you will be permitted to see it, and how much you're gonna pay to do that. And no other alternatives.

It's the same reason that the Olympics have declined so disastrously over the last few decades. People have got to the point that they're no longer interested in the very feeble and very expensive rubbish on offer.


👤 PaulHoule
One of my favorite vloggers on the Ukraine war is sponsored by VPN service which, he says, lets him get an IP address is another country so he can watch streaming shows not available in Ukraine. This could solve your boggle.