• All Things D, Tuesday, January 3, 2012 2:54 PM

Of course most media- and tech-savvy folks know that it's possible to pirate TV over the Web. "Still, it’s always worth pointing out just how easy it has become," writes Peter Kafka. "It’s particularly important when it comes to live sports, because that’s supposed to be the one thing that keeps everyone — or many people, at least — paying (a lot) for cable."

Kafka does the honors here by zeroing in on the pirating of a New York Knicks game, currently unavailable to Time Warner Cable subscribers due to a conflict between the cable operator and MSG Networks. But the issues surrounding such actions can be as fuzzy as the reception of pirated content itself, as Kafka explains in his analysis of why the cable guys may not be the only black hats here.

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