The logistics of a league organized by a video game's publisher are one thing. The logistics of an independent league would be something else entirely. Let's compare with physical sports:

• What happens once the sequel is out and the game's publisher no longer wants to sponsor a league for the older game? After gridiron football largely displaced the older association football (soccer) code in one country, MLS was established to play soccer alongside NFL's gridiron football.
• What happens when a substantial number of players disagree with the policies of the publisher's official league? The American League popped up alongside the National League, the AFL (American Football League) operated alongside the NFL, and the BAA (Basketball Association of America, now the NBA) competed with the NBL (National Basketball League) and ABA (American Basketball Association) before acquiring them.
• Or what happens when want to make their own modifications? The AFL (Arena Football League) and the XFL competed with the NFL.

The difference is that in e-sports, nobody else can run a league because a video game's copyright owner has legal power to suppress live streams of the game.

There's a difference between having an Internet connection at all and having an Internet connection sufficient for sustained Netflix use. A lot of Internet providers, especially satellite and cellular, impose data transfer quotas of 5 to 10 GB per month.

That depends on whether having only cellular Internet counts as having Internet.

Netflix would answer thus: "Show older shows so you don't have to pay as much in royalties."

It's still a chicken-and-egg question. How does the link-local nameserver in customer-owned equipment configure itself?

It also gets the ad-free stuff months or years later (except for its own productions), when licensors are willing to license the works at a rate acceptable to Netflix.

Likewise, if you currently subscribe to only cable TV and not wired Internet, Netflix is expensive because you have to add cable Internet to your package.

Are they just unaware of what advantages running a home server can offer? Or have the benefits of a server been explained to them after which they still decline?

This doesn't make sense. Without "rely[ing] on the Internet", how do you watch movies other than "[a]n optical disc with one single movie on it"?

We don't, but a lot of us live with people who do.

Can you read a wide variety of sources while doing other housework? Because that's what my roommate ends up doing. She plugs cordless headphones into the TV's audio out, puts on MSNBC or C-SPAN, and listens to the talking heads while doing housework in another room.

<APK>Yeah, but it works in user mode so it's probably slow as shit. Hosts files work in kernel mode, making them inherently faster to process with fewer context switches.</APK> :p

But seriously, thank you for the recommendation. Do you know whether it uses an algorithm suited for efficient processing of multi-megabyte hosts files?

Is "Trouble Man" by Marvin Gaye in the same way that "Blurred Lines" is by Marvin Gaye?

That's fine for people who don't watch live political news (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, C-SPAN) or live sports. Because the leagues still sell exclusive rights to particular matches to traditional TV networks, the leagues' streaming subscription services black out any match shown on broadcast, cable, or satellite TV in your area

Would you prefer a choice between Hulu Plus with ads at $10 per month and ad-free Hulu Plus Plus at $30 per month? Because the operators of these services would argue that only the combination of ad revenue and subscription revenue is enough to pay the royalty bills.

Customers ought not to stand for inability to run servers. Therefore, customers ought not to stand for being stuck on carrier-grade NAT. Therefore, with more people than IPv4 addresses, IPv6 is a requirement.