Clampdown on TV 'Dodgy Boxes'

Especially when they are coming with evidence that they bought a dodgy box service.

I would if i could download it - anti piracy ad 2004 who remembers this? Used to be in the trailors at the cinema.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FtE0S-IyY0

There are hundreds of thousands of residences not paying for their TV licences. A far easier crime to prosecute if you think about it. I see very few of these people getting fined or ending up in jail for what are much more concrete and black and white criminality. I really don't see any judges side on the arm of big business with some shoddy evidence on board, of they even get as far as court.

This is where the "tecnophobes" jump to conclusions and assumptions.

A "dodgy box" subscription - does not necessarily mean that individual is using a television to consume that sub. An IPTV sub = a username and a password to a particular IPTV providers subscription package that grants the paid up user access to the service.

My subscription (as an example) allows me to log in using Android devices (phone, tablet, and yes - android TV and Nvidia Shield) but I can also use it via my PC, via Windows platform which has a big ass 55" display, and isn't classed as a TV, so no license necessarily required for it.

There's options for apple users also, but I'm not an apple consumer, so my knowledge of that end of things is limited, but there's definitely an apple app, and also access via apple TV.

You don't really know what you're yakkig about, do you?

You don't need a conventional television in order to consume RTE or BBC either, anyone with an IPTV sub can equally access the needed apps to use BBC's iPlayer, or RTEs player.

*Most* likely are watching it ON a television, but the applications used are most likely installed via another piece of hardware - like an android device, apple device, windows etc.

For clarity, this household does indeed own a few TVs, and we pay the TV license also, but we could in theory ditch the telly later this evening if we wanted, and consume BBC/RTE or the 10s of 1000s of other channels open to us via our IPTV sub without it. (And stop paying the TV license - legitimately)

For the above reasons, the traditional TV licence, and sky and other television channel providers business models are pretty much dead tbh.

Take the Arsenal match yesterday as an example, I watched most of it via the "live events" folder within my IPTV sub, it started glitching a bit towards the 90th minute, resulting in me trying a few other channels to get a stable stream. 2/3 minutes later, I had a stable stream via (from memory I think) a New Zealand sports channel.

If that match was available to me by way of a reasonable price (let's say a 5er) I probably would have bought it, to save the faffing about.

The TV subscription industry needs a complete business remodeling, because it's dead in its current condition.

So let's say you are one of those on the Revolut list. Can't you just say I just sent the guy a present or an error? There's no proof of a business transaction other than money

It's more like 8 years of you do it right

In the greatest of ironys, the song used on that anti piracy add was itself actually pirates.

was with a group illegally watching it, the whole broadcasting landscape is a mess!