It's incredible but it makes total sense. I suppose that he can't always control what is livestreamed or not, hence the Brazil 2014 disaster (the 2017 weren't that bad IMO, I think they were pretty decent). But now to protect the LP 2.0 brand he must have adopted this protectionist attitude, with some exceptions (last year show must have gotten the pass since they supposedly were going to release on its own), like this one.
No Livestream will ever be perfect, and this one came very close. Let's enjoy what we have