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Watching Illegal Streams

05/24/2015 at 11:13am EDT

from Aaron Elstein of Crain's New York Business,

If you've followed the Rangers' quest for the Stanley Cup, then you've had a few options if you've wanted to watch.

You could buy a ticket, though the cheapest seats for playoff games at Madison Square Garden cost around $400.

You could watch on TV from home, which would require forking over about $100 a month for a cable package, depending on the plan.

Or you could watch the games online. For nothing.

It takes only a few minutes of surfing the Internet to find a live Rangers game courtesy of someone who is streaming the NBC Sports cable network and Mike Emrick's electrifying play-by-play for free.

These pirate sports sites—some of which even make money from advertising—are taking advantage of technology that's making it easier to live-stream high-definition TV feeds, enabling them to expand their audiences beyond diehard fans willing to put up with choppy video and erratic sound. In short, the same kind of bandits who attacked movies and music are now assaulting the multibillion-dollar world of sports.

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