ESPN insider Adam Schefter had to address a certain elephant in the room after he shared a clip of an NFL play that appeared to come from an illegal streaming site.
Fans noticed that in a clip from a Thursday Night Football game between the New York Jets and the Houston Texans, in the top right corner was a watermark for ‘MethStreams.com’.
On The Pat McAfee Show, the hosts were joking about the clip when McAfee decided to phone Schefter to joke with him over it.
The insider picked up, but he was at a doctors appointment – so he was reluctant to play along.
Eventually, he did fire off a few jokes for the former Indianapolis Colts punter.
Adam Schefter addressed a rumor that he used an illegal streaming site to watch Jets-Texans
‘It’s the most ridiculous thing that I tried to [steal] $8.99 a month, when my wife spends an average of $8.99 a minute with Amazon,’ Schefter said on the phone.
Schefter kept laughing, saying that he has no idea how to get around a streaming website to begin with.
It’s more likely than not that Schefter used the clip of the play from another Twitter user that grabbed the clip from the illegal streaming site.
In 2023, the NFL joined the NBA and UFC sought to uproot pirated streaming of their products. The league estimated that illegal streams cost major US sports around $28billion annually.
‘Unfortunately, UFC, NBAP and NFLP’s shared experience is that many OSPs frequently take hours or even days to remove content in response to takedown notices—thus allowing infringing live content to remain online during the most anticipated moments, or even the entirety, of a UFC event or an NBA or NFL game,’ the leagues wrote in a letter to Congress.
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