<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>revolvingocelot</author><text>“We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable.” --Gabe Newell, [0]&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.escapistmagazine.com&amp;#x2F;Valves-Gabe-Newell-Says-Piracy-Is-a-Service-Problem&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.escapistmagazine.com&amp;#x2F;Valves-Gabe-Newell-Says-Pir...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>Niksko</author><text>The irony for me is that the NHL is an excellent example of why piracy happens. Last hockey season, I could pay the NHL directly to get access to all hockey games from Australia. They have a Google TV app that was flawed, but worked well enough, and I was happy.&lt;p&gt;This year, because the NHL have done a deal with ESPN, I have to do a convoluted deal with a third party to get access to ESPN, and my experience is terrible. ESPN&amp;#x27;s Android app is terrible, the Google TV app flat out doesn&amp;#x27;t work, and casting from my phone to my TV craps out during period breaks and long ad breaks.&lt;p&gt;Piracy would be easier, better and cheaper than paying for things. It&amp;#x27;s the same reason Netflix reduced piracy, and now it&amp;#x27;s tanking. They created something that was easier, cheaper and better than piracy. Now with their increasing prices, declining quality, and fragmentation of their library, piracy is going to increase again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Internet Filtering in Canada: Rogers&apos; NHL Blocking Order</title><url>https://typefully.com/kaplanmyrth/internet-filtering-in-canada-rogers-nhl-TPEqjeU</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pluc</author><text>In Canada, I can&amp;#x27;t even buy the NHL&amp;#x27;s own product to watch hockey games! They black out their own local games because they&amp;#x27;ve sold the rights to someone else. The NHL wants me to buy cable, then get not one, but four channels in order to watch one team (since RDS split the rights with TVA Sports and they are both specialty channels, that you must subscribe to their parent channels to get, or in case of RDS it _is_ the parent channel, but _must_ come with their child channels). Thanks but no thanks.&lt;p&gt;The NHL is 100% the cause of NHL piracy. I have the money, give me an option that isn&amp;#x27;t retarded.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Niksko</author><text>The irony for me is that the NHL is an excellent example of why piracy happens. Last hockey season, I could pay the NHL directly to get access to all hockey games from Australia. They have a Google TV app that was flawed, but worked well enough, and I was happy.&lt;p&gt;This year, because the NHL have done a deal with ESPN, I have to do a convoluted deal with a third party to get access to ESPN, and my experience is terrible. ESPN&amp;#x27;s Android app is terrible, the Google TV app flat out doesn&amp;#x27;t work, and casting from my phone to my TV craps out during period breaks and long ad breaks.&lt;p&gt;Piracy would be easier, better and cheaper than paying for things. It&amp;#x27;s the same reason Netflix reduced piracy, and now it&amp;#x27;s tanking. They created something that was easier, cheaper and better than piracy. Now with their increasing prices, declining quality, and fragmentation of their library, piracy is going to increase again.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Internet Filtering in Canada: Rogers&apos; NHL Blocking Order</title><url>https://typefully.com/kaplanmyrth/internet-filtering-in-canada-rogers-nhl-TPEqjeU</url></story>