Look, give me legal, quality pay-per-view online access to A-League games and I'll never free-stream again. (Hell, why not do a deal with FFA/WPFC to allow streaming for club members and season ticket holders?)
No-one can enforce a digital monopoly in the broadband era, and to attempt to do so through shaming and social pressure is as risible as 80s anti-drugs campaigning.
We get a very bad deal in comparison to say the UK. Lots of legal ways of watching free sport with your broadband package etc. (and broadband is cheaper too).
In Britain A-League games are on BT Sport which comes free with British Telecom broadband packages.
BT Sport streams free for customers online (comprises two channels plus ESPN)
Has live Premier League games, A-League, live FA Cup, live Scottish Premier, live Serie A, live Bundesliga, live Portugal Primera, live UEFA League etc. plus many other sports.
It costs 5 pounds a month for "BT TV" which has 70 channels of Freeview - you just add BT Sport for free. You can watch via a TV decoder or online.
For those who subscribe to Sky TV in the UK, BT Sport can be added for free if you're a BT broadband subscriber.
In Britain you can watch live A-League for free, here you have to pay $76/ month for Sky Basic + Sport plus you'll already be paying a minimum of $70 / month for phone and broadband with no added bonuses like free sport.
Actually, this tempts me to move to the UK....