Clampdown on TV 'Dodgy Boxes'

Love how the 'good guys' who were on rte news earlier were allowed to rattle out a load of lies and scary words to try to warn future potential users off.

I heard viruses and ransom ware mentioned. I have experience of said boxes, and know hundreds of people using them and not one has ever experienced any such problems.

I heard they’ve repurposed all of the analogue tv signal vans that the license inspectors used to have hahahahahaha

I was wondering was anyone still doing pirate DVD's, yes is the answer, this 72 year old probably made a mint from the his grey pound mates not up on the internet 😁

On the other hand Sky makes a lot of money, subscriptions, advertising,

Cost of everything absolutely everything entertainment wise since covid has skyrocketed…. TV packages, live entertainment.. gigs / theatre etc…

literally the only things I watch on TV now is live sport and the odd comedy / documentary… so about 30 channels out of 400+.

so you can understand why dodgy boxes and tech to jump around the premium high charges exist.

Fair enough but dont steal it then, it looks very bad a business doing something like that.

Not fully possible or feasible to block custom DNS services, if you use a VPN the you’ll use the VPN’s DNS.

If the ISP decides to block VPN’s that really won’t go down well as many of us have a legitimate and fully legal reason to use (wfh which uses a custom corporate VPN). They couldn’t even run an exception based system as the corporate VPNs are configured by your employer and could change with little notice.

you mean the pint symbol on the bottom left they have had for businesses over the last 20 + years?

I’m not interested in getting a dodgy tv box or watching SKY for free but I would like to learn more about what free TV apps and streaming are out there and since there’s a lot of people here right now with know how knowledge, could I trouble you to point me in the direction of where I can educate myself on the weird and the wonderful of free and legitimate paid streaming apps

I don’t have a fire stick and while not quite like tracker mortgages of old, I don’t know a whole lot about what a fire stick is 😀- Netflix and Amazon prime are really the only two I subscribe to but might get paramount + for Fraiser in October if they’re showing it this side of the pond.

But would like to see what else is there and what I need to get to watch.

Lol. How can they detect a legit connection being broadcast outside its own network for iptv purposes.

Yes, I've often wondered why they did not already do this. Kill the subs as they are detected. I would say it's coming.

Thanks- I actually have the Fraiser box set😀 But must explore the All4 app as didn’t think Ireland could access that- is it a fire stick I need to stream it onto the TV? (If I want to watch it on the TV Vs mobile device etc)

The main driver is the premier league, and that isn't just cost as other's have mentioned. I generally pay for content (podcasts/ TV subs/ GCN+ & NowTV for sports), but the temptation for IPTV is every game of the club. I was actually considering vpn/ Bein subscription.

Piracy/ Streaming obviously hasn't reached the tipping point for the premier league/ subscription TV that they offer season passes for clubs. fwiw I think there'd probably still be a market for sky/ tnt for "games of the weekend" that people would watch as neutral.

But it's not, and this is why.

Sky and BT (TNT sports) pay the EPL and other sports bodies to have the right to show their product.

Sky etc then make that money back and the profit by charging the customer.

The EPL and the sports bodies distribute that money they get from the TV companies to the clubs and the clubs spend it on everything from high profile players to the people who clean the stadium.

Now the financial analysts of the TV companies look at their subscription numbers and determine they are losing £x to illegal streaming.

So in turn when the next round of rights auctions come around they bid less, and as a result the sports bodies get less and the clubs get less.

So with the clubs getting less they have to cut costs.

They won't cut the salary of the high profile players straight away, but they will spend less on lower profile players, they will cut costs in maintenance, catering, admin etc.

So at the end of the day it's the guys and girls at the bottom of the ladder that lose out, they are the victims, the ordinary people like you and me.

Now don't confuse this analysis of who the victims are with any aversion to illegal streaming.

For years I've watched sports on free illegal streaming, at the end of the day I've a greater responsibility to my own family finances than the finances of a pie vendor inside Villa Park.

You don’t need a Firestick or “Dodgy Box” to access the streaming apps , they are freely available on most Smart TV’s .