sms wrote:

> On 8/1/2022 9:59 PM, AJL wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> If the reason for the blackout is just to sell more local sporting event
>> tickets then I perhaps commit the same fraud by using various methods to
>> evade webpage ads while enjoying the content...
>
> Jorge is wrong of course™. Watching a broadcast television station's
> stream, that the station provides at no cost, is hardly fraud.
>
> Tonight there was a documentary on the PBS affiliate in Miami. The show
> was of little interest to people out of the area, unless you grew up
> there and moved away. A lot of people that no longer lived in the area
> were complaining that they could not watch it. The TV station streams
> all their shows via the PBS app but it defaults to your local PBS station.
>
> I recall that back in the 1970's and 1980's some NFL teams would have
> the local station black out the games in order to spur ticket sales, but
> I don't think they do that anymore because the lost revenue from the
> black out did not make it worthwhile since few fans would buy tickets
> when a game was blacked out. Sometimes fans would get in a car and drive
> to outside the local area, and go to a bar to watch the game.

It's not fraud.
It's not even close.

Stupid people with no education claim everything they can't do, is fraud.

Never forget people like Joerg Lorenz & nospam are so ill educated they
don't know "fraud" requires EVERY one of multiple tenets to exist.
*The Nine Elements of Common Law Fraud*
<https://www.robertdmitchell.com/common-law-fraud>

Note: None of these tenets exist, let alone _all_ of them, where I note
that every single one has to be proven for it to be considered fraud.
--
Posted out of the goodness of my heart to disseminate useful information,
which in this csae is to show a definition of the tenets of common fraud.