Clampdown on TV 'Dodgy Boxes'

Ok having spent the morning trying to nail full coverage from the States of PL via Peacock & Sling I can finally say I’ve done it.

Got Blue package on Sling added to my Peacock.

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They are laying it on thick.

Inside Sky’s war on dodgy boxes: ‘A member of the family who is a garda has one – half the station has them’

https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/inside-skys-war-on-dodgy-boxes-a-member-of-the-family-who-is-a-garda-has-one-half-the-station-has-them/a677957927.html

How long before some entity give us a back door into the indo. Writing on one hand that after an initial 47/ month for a SKY package it rises to 107/ month after 12 months and addind Disney, Netflixs and other subscriptions costs another 73 euro. The writing that consumers using Dodgy boxes costi g 80-160/year have no recourse if anything goes wrong.

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Weckler must be on a retainer or something. He is on some crusade or else he lost his true vocation he should be writing comedy

It is no surprise to me that journalist can find out about Gardai owning dodgy boxes. Lots of people on this thread know about it. Three examples from 2024.

"If they were to start going after end users it would open up a can of worms. The local gardas all have them. Solicitors I know have them. Won't happen. Gardai don't have the resources or appetite to start chasing lads who have access to Sky Sports for a cheaper rate. And why would they. Let Sky paddle their own canoe. Cnuts."

"Just got word from my provider that he is increasing prices by 10euro a connection per year going forward. The cheek of him!!I ordered another two. 4 Firesticks in total now across the house. Also referred some mates to the same provider. Literally 90 percent of the people I know in both a work and personal context are using IPTV. These lads range from the very wealthy to tradesmen and Gardai. IPTV only seems to be growing stronger. It;s here to stay thankfully."

"anyone that thinks that the guards/sky/government will go after end users is clearly a bit simple.. they have only ever targeted the resellers. Mine is out of the jurisdiction as are the servers. It’s a game of whack-a-mole that the providers keep winning. They would be prosecuting themselves as a large proportion of the serving guards I know are all users of IPTV lol"

So is Conor Pope.

More Garda stories from the thread.

"I looked into getting a dodgy box. I found out that 2 suppliers in my local area were actually Gardai."

"I was away at the weekend. My local pub has a golf society, and we get an away outing out of it every summer. Anyways we’re all sitting down to pints after the round Saturday and the topic of dodgy boxes comes up, as it was prominently in the news over the weekend. Only 3 lads out of about 25 didn’t have at least one, and that’s because (by their own admission) too auld to know how to use it. And out of the 20 odd that did have them, 3 were members of An Garda Síochána! I’m not exactly sure what legal route Sky are hoping to follow with their inquiry, but I’m not sure how much support on the ground it’ll receive from the people that are meant to implement it!"

"We use a vpn for wfh. They are a fully legit. Isp will never block. Why would they? That would be like saying if a burglar uses Dublin bus to travel to areas to rob houses that dublin bus are somehow complicit. Ffs. Any paid iptv provider will more than likely be using routing on their end anyway to hide or mask the traffic. You will never see users of these subs in court. Sure loads of gardai and solicitors are using them."