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Well...ok, forget economics for a second. Think about ethics. Sure, without those laws people could rebroadcast games and advertise and do Sportscenter-type shows, but who is that really hurting? The NFL has already made it's money at that point. They've already gotten paid for advertising (long before any game ever airs) and they're certainly not making money off of the broadcast itself since they do most of them on network television (who has already paid them a small fortune for the rights to do so). So if anyone has a right to complain it'd be the networks, no? I mean, they're paying out the ass for the NFL's "property" and if someone can come along and do it for less or free then they get screwed, not the NFL. And really, how can the NFL possibly call a game "property". They can own rights to it's broadcast, but the second after opening kick off they have no say in what happens which sort of voids any intellectual copyright laws. Since that's pretty much what they're standing on, how do they get away with such bullshit?
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