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Or not being able to. Regional licensing, missing and shuffling content.

To watch the world cup I had to spin up a VM in Brazil to watch it with Portuguese narration because the free transmissions are region locked.

I would gladly pay 5 bucks for it if it was possible otherwise and avoid the hassle.

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There was no way in your country to pay and watch it? FIFA will have sold the tv rights there to someone, surely. In which case your complaint is what, that it was expensive?

Free on both, but not with the narration in my native language.

On Brazil the world cup was being transmitted on youtube. in NL only on traditional TV channels or Online for the same channels (all for free but in Dutch).

And literally as I write this I receive an email saying that my youtube premium was raised from 33 to 38 EURO. So there we have piracy getting juicier and juicier.

We humans, often forget that logistics is always the bottleneck in any Industry.

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