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Free start-up idea: Twitch.tv for sports commentating. Everyone hates the announcers for proffesional sports, why not have a platform for user-commentators? Mute my TV and have Joe Shcmoe commentate an NFL game by streaming the audio through my phone's speakers.

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Most major sports teams claim copyright over "accounts" and "Descriptions of the game". Now, this may not be copyright-able, but I'd give it a 90%+ chance they would sue your brand new startup if you tried something like that...

Wasnt that a big problem for Twitch early on? Getting sued by networks because people were streaming on their platform.

Any press is good press for a startup I suppose..

Yeah that would definitely be a problem for the bigger leagues like the NFL. But I think smaller leagues (MMA, MLS, non-mainstream sports) could embrace the extra viewers.

Andy Roddick started commentating tennis over periscope and its absolutely amazing. He pulled in sponsors for the US Open and provided insight on players thats extremely tough to find elsewhere.

That is all I want but for the NFL.

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