Last month during the CBA regular season match between Shanghai and Shandong, I was sitting in my rental apartment in Addis Ababa, having opened my usual sports platform 10 minutes early, only to find the stream only had English commentary from a local TV station. The player names were mispronounced terribly, and the tactical analysis was full of jargon I couldn't follow. The whole experience just didn't feel right.
Later I dug through forums and asked fellow fans living in East Africa, and finally figured out what was going on. Domestic CBA licensed streaming platforms like Migu and CCTV Video have regional copyright restrictions. If you try to access them directly in Ethiopia, you either get a \
