[anfilt]

Even with that link I have trouble believing it myself.

Like how was this data/survey gathered/administrated? Sample size ect...

Also I don't understand how sports seem to get so much attention. Like they are just games why?

Another post I was reading a bit ago was how Spain what basically suffering internet outages to stop pirate streams of games on the weekend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323856

Like why is a game considered so important that even internet traffic has to suffer. It boggles my mind.

[gruez]

>Like how was this data/survey gathered/administrated? Sample size ect...

If you read to the bottom they explain their methodology.

[mschuster91]

> Like why is a game considered so important that even internet traffic has to suffer. It boggles my mind.

Because that game makes 1.8 billion dollars a year in TV licensing rights [1], and pirates undercut the pay-TV stations' ability to recoup these expenses.

Add in a ... questionable legal system, club and league presidents with friends with very very deep pockets, cloud providers that don't care what they host as long as the legal system of their host country absolves them of liabilities and that's how you get inane rulings like this.

[1] https://www.salaryleaks.com/prize-money/spanish-la-liga

[missingdays]

> Like they are just games why?

Because they are fun.