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- Feb 27, 2012
Some interesting information courtesy of FSU posters Sylvia and Momnatur:
... 2. The Team Challenge Cup was only added to the list of subscription competitions in mid-April of this year, at about the time the extra charge was announced ...
Not that it really matters, but at least by late December, (1) TCC did appear on IN's schedule and (2) IN's TCC comp page was live. (That said, I do not claim to know the exact language that appeared on the page at that time. I'm pretty sure it mentioned IN streaming, but I cannot swear that it mentioned inclusion of TCC streaming in the Season Pass.)
IN's comp page was not live yet in mid-July. After that, all I know is that I periodically was checking IN to see whether a TCC comp page had been added. The first time I noticed it was in late Dec.
I'm not paying, as a matter of principle.
That they are charging extra is outrageous, and the amount they're charging doubly so.
People who pay - no matter how unwillingly - are effectively condoning IN's behaviour, and encouraging them to do it again in future. I refuse to do either.
Then I trust that as a matter of principle, you will refuse also to watch any TCC videos on YouTube (or any other platform) that are bootlegged from the IN coverage. And that you will refuse to watch any bootleg streaming of IN's TCC live competition coverage (the possibility of which was mentioned by sabinfire in another TCC thread).
To watch any bootlegged TCC content that originates from IN also would be condoning IN's policy re TCC -- b/c someone did have to pay the IN subscription fee in order to provide the bootlegging. And you would be condoning that person's acquiescence with IN's policy re TCC. (Unless a bootlegger hacked into IN without paying the fee. But if hacking in were that easy, I assume you already would be doing it yourself. )
(I have never subscribed to IN for anything, and will not be subscribing for the sake of TCC. But I don't run around patting myself on the back for being holier than thou when it come to principles.)
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