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I thought it was always illegal? But I just thought these streams are overseas and they wouldn't fall under US law. Now if they come after the consumer that's another issue, but I would think they got bigger fish to fry then coming after a dude watching a football game.
It was always illegal, this makes it a felony and the way the original bill was written(Thom Tillis) made it a felony both for the streamer and the watcher. I suspect it's being tacked into the Covid stimulus because they're claiming during the pandemic lots of people were illegally streaming movies and later NFL games? I think it connects to the idea the NFL is going that way with Sunday Ticket though. They were probably being nice during Covid but apparently if they keep that in the bill, it will be a felony and sites like crackstreams will be gone.