Where did they even get the money to buy the rights? they are awful
Where did they even get the money to buy the rights? they are awful
This is what you fail to realize. Flotrack is a business and they are out for profit...
Did LRC ever hear back from the NCAA with a satisfactory answer as to why Turner was able to sell NCAAs and put it behind a paywall?
Better yet -save your money and get the results from LR; then dial it up taped on YouTube. I've watched Tokyo, Berlin, London and many other major european road races or XC within hours of the race.
runnerboy1 wrote:
Better yet -save your money and get the results from LR; then dial it up taped on YouTube. I've watched Tokyo, Berlin, London and many other major european road races or XC within hours of the race.
I'll wager Flotrack will be out to protect their "investment" and will be issuing DMCA takedowns as fast as the videos appear.
Holy cow how does know one understand that you can just use Hola or some other IP masking thing and watch from a different country. Everyone complaining on here can watch for free, so stop the bitching.
I have to laugh at the number of people who are opposed to capitalism when they're on the paying end.
ThatAverageRunner wrote:
Holy cow how does know one understand that you can just use Hola or some other IP masking thing and watch from a different country. Everyone complaining on here can watch for free, so stop the bitching.
Hola is high risk. Some have claimed Kiddie porn people can download illegal stuff and it could be raced to your IP.
A paid for real VPN is a better option. Period.
survey says wrote:
I have to laugh at the number of people who are opposed to capitalism when they're on the paying end.
Don't think they're opposed to capitalism, just the price. Based on the hate for flotrack on these boards I would guess that they're only marginally profitable at best. They try to produce a lot of stuff and that can't be cheap. At least they're employing some folks at the moment I guess.
survey says wrote:
I have to laugh at the number of people who are opposed to capitalism when they're on the paying end.
I'm all for capitalism. I'm not for monopolies when the only company that is allowed to sell a given product ruins the quality of that product in every meaningful way.
The FloTrack site is a technical nightmare, and they have ruined MileSplit in just the same way, They learn from their mistakes in the sense that they learn to apply them more and more energetically as time passes.
The make canceling very difficult by design because they are eager to bill for services not rendered, and when you cancel, you're done being able to watch meets at that moment, even if you're only two days into the month you paid for. Here, they are trying to get people to wait until the last possible moment to cancel and in so doing forget to actually do it and thus fork over another $20.
Worst of all, the "announcers" all act and sound like 14-year-olds on bath salts whose knowledge of track and field extends to a very quick perusal of Haile Gebreselassie's Wikipedia page. If certain humans are ever forced to undergo those "debarking" larynx operations that some dogs have to get, these screeching weenies would be at the very top of the list along with Gilbert Gottfried and Sandra Bernhard.
All in all, FloTrack is a huge pile of crap, and everyone who works there in an admin capacity deserves to be on the streets of Erie, Pennsylvania, huddled together in a large cardboard box, ravaged by infected open sores, sharing bottles of Purple Drank and Listerine, and complaining about it in grating, hysterical tones -- an event I would be pleased to livestream for free.
Whoa that escalated quickly.
You proved my above point though.
Someone can't help but hide the MASSIVE amount of BUTTHURT they have.
Exactly.
They are liars and steal money from other humans.
…and you may also have the solution in your answer.
Can we have someone on a bike follow Kenenisa Bekele during the Dubai Marathon and Livestream Bekele World Recordâ„¢ with their i-phone or something like that???
(We did it with Robert Young.)
ThatAverageRunner wrote:
whendidit wrote:I'm going to use that hola add on as well.
If anyone knows of countries that are NOT blocked we can use to disguise IP as, please let me know.
I've used Hola without any issues before.
The UK didn't seem to be on that list, so it should work.
Hola is not a safe VPN add-on unless you like your ip being part of a botnet
Hey man, if you can make the Erie thing happen, I think you could stream it for $5, at least I'd pay that much, maybe 10 if I could watch a beer mile before the main event.
why is that a bad thing?
Seriously.... you really think that's bad??
what a shame. I can watch the stream here, but it starts at 320am.
i hope there is a nice match at the AUS Open or some snooker highlights from 100-320
I'm not defending their actions but do you guys know how things work? When few people want to watch something, then you need to charge a lot to make any money for it. The fact that millions will stream netflix is totally different.
Nice events are going to cost more.
Now that doesn't mean I like the fact they are charging for Dubai.
There is another thread called "Suggestions for flotrack."
Here is what I wrote there.
And perhaps my favorite post from that thread:
Do they not own the rights in Australia?