Clampdown on TV 'Dodgy Boxes'

you re living in cloud cuckoo land, shutting down paddy does nothing in the grand scheme, everyone knows server numbers are increasing, and at a significant level, they just move onto another server, and thats that, very few, will move back to legal services, they just wont, ive heard nothing about people losing access to iptv in waterford, nobody at all, clearly some have, but everyone knows, just move on to another one….

His name is Graham, not Paddy.

https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2022/04/21/local-man-can-get-you-a-dodgy-box-just-say-the-word/

its not really that frustrating to end users, when users know servers are dime a dozen, and all it requires is a quick phone call, and back online they are, they might lose connection for a couple of days, but thats it, people are simply not willing to pay the fees of legal providers, its done, people are not going back, theres plenty of paddies in waterford, they are known, people dont have to go far to contact them…

Lads if you type iptv into Google you'll get loads of ads for them and usually a free trial. Dosnt matter if your seller goes tits up

My Guy.

Socialising is a stretch.....the very wealthiest of wealthy Americans own NFL teams and make vast sums of money from doing so, while holding cities to ransom under threat of moving "their" franchise elsewhere unless they taxpayer builds them a fancy new stadium. The only reason they have the share element, and I don't know to what extent it actually applies, is to ensure everyone makes more money.

I think the word "Cartel" is more accurate when referring to American sport

This happened in Portsmouth when they got into trouble.

Players refused to take even a short term pay cut, so Mary in the canteen etc all did lose their jobs.

The Premier League in its current guise is vulgarity in the extreme.

To the players, this is just business. They couldn't care less about the clubs they play for.

Kiss the badge and the idiots lapping it up.

The staff count at United doubled in 10 years, it was an absolute bloated mess with double and treble jobbing and in some instances absolutely no need for the position.

The players are not going to give up anything unless it is in their contract, the club have to honour the contracts.

Also players particular youth players who come through the ranks are not immune from getting fired either.

Anyway, the mess United find themselves has feck all to do with IPTV and all to do with years of mismanagement.

United have one of the lowest wage to turnover ratios in the league.

Paying wages isn't United's problem, paying wages to the like of Mason Mount and Luke Shaw who are made of stale pringles is the problem.

Bruno on 300k a week plus bonuses is worth every penny.

There’s always been hacking of subscription tv channels on satellite & cable since the dawn of the Premier League and now with IPTV servers - it just continues on.

The game of cat n mouse won’t stop happening even if the miracle of players wages been reduced.

Sly have a tiered system which means you must have a basic pack to then go for sport - which is the core of the issue, pure greed. If I or any fan just want FTA channels and sport, then they should be able to do so.

Basically, the providers worldwide have had this coming & like Netflix or Amazon, you should be able to pay for a months subscription to the Premier League without the need of purchasing channels you won’t or never will watch.

My personal issue is I can’t watch every game live here in Ireland but in USA, South Africa, Australia & New Zealand for example - you can. - That’s wrong.

IPTV then through “illegal” means becomes more of a draw and will keep on attracting people that have been short-changed by UK & Ireland providers of Sport.

Will they introduce a PL app down the line or suffer the consequences of what IPTV is doing and growing even bigger?

I doubt it, & for that reason you can’t blame people for purchasing a server & a “bogey box”.

Just my 2 cents.

Honestly, I don't think I'd pay Sky €5 a month for their channels.

I want to see 3pm Saturday kick offs. I don't want to be tied to what they think I should want to see. I want to see the games I want to see when I want to see them.

Player wages are absolutely correlated to TV revenue and if that suffers in the next TV deal then eventually players wages adjust to affordability and PSR rules force their hand even more.

The genie is out of the bottle and it ain't going back in no matter how much people think it will. If anything, it will get more sophisticated and harder to manage.

Sorry Rupert et al but the good times are over and the pool of mugs willing to pay €50 a month is dwindling.

Ill informed? The only thing ill informed is your delusion that people are going to abandon their dodgy boxes etc and go back to Now TV etc - the ship has sailed and isn't coming back no matter how much you yell at it.

To be honest, nobody stops me from watching the 3pm kick offs. But once upon a time they did.

You obviously don't understand the meaning of et al…

The good times are over for these companies. This is the reality, ill informed me backside.