I'll make an analogy that might help the olds understand what exactly is happening here.
ESPN3 is like a drive-in movie theater. You can pay to get in and that's the easiest thing to do, and you are right there seeing the movie. The movie, though, is really being shown to the world in public. You can drive out somewhere where you are still in view of the screen and watch it with a pair of binoculars no problem. Now, the theater might not like this and may send some cops or thugs out to harass you and run you off, but you aren't doing anything immoral here. At the very worst, you can be accused of being cheap by going through the trouble and not just paying for a ticket.
My friends and and I are getting the game on PPV because my buddy has a nice big TV, but I'm going to have my computer with me too and I'm going to stream the game at the same time. Why? Because **** them and their worthless IP geo-location restrictions, that's why. Controlling how the world sees your IP is your own G-D business. I suspect that some of the sentiment that this is stealing is caused by a complete lack of understanding of how things on Al Gore's internet works by pompous noobs. If the OP's instructions look like a confusing script for how to diffuse a time bomb and you think this is stealing, then that is probably you.
[This message has been edited by reb, (edited 9/6/2013 7:50p).]