Clampdown on TV 'Dodgy Boxes'

All world cup games will be broadcast on the channels CazéTV (Brazil) but will be in Portuguese only.

Aleph Arena (Philippines) will have around 40 games but will be in English and will include some big group matches.

They will be geoblocked but I assume a VPN will bypass this easily enough.

EDIT: scratch that - didnt realise RTE & VirginMedia will have all their games on their players.

The current iteration is third party apps hosted on consumer devices using m3u URLs/Xtream codes to access playlists of illegal streams.

They all use a URL which is routed back through multiple hops to some sort of provider

It's inevitable that authorities will eventually get the better of this and they will no longer be worth it for the end user.

But what comes after that will take a while to become ubiquitous the way the above system has.

The current iteration has been around a bit, but it's only in recent times that every man and his dog has one.

And as broadcasting and content creation moves further towards an IPTV rather than a satellite/DTTV delivery the broadcasters and creators are going to invest further in making sure their IPTV products don't become easy targets for piracy.

Yep, RTE showing every game

100 percent on point here with this post.

The other thing that needs to be remembered is that the cost of "offical" methods of watching sports etc has gotten prohibitive for many people.

You've got to wonder if IPTV stopped working tomorrow (and nothing came along to replace it), would 400,000 people/households (whatever the figure is) start shelling over 140 odd euro a month for sports/movie/series etc (or whatever it is) to Sky and others to get their fix of sports? I know many who wouldn't.

Aertel.

The first of them netflix circus events were a disaster for legit viewers anyways as far as I recall.

Tyson Vs Paul I think was bad bad for glitching whereas it was grand on IPTV providers

One is legal, one isn't. Let's not forget that.

One could stop working in the morning after you paying for it.

You don't show any understanding of when card sharing was developed, the technical and economic limitations of card sharing or what was happening in the pirate TV market at that time. You don't understand when card sharing became a viable solution and when external developments overtook it in the market. It is all there in the post.

So to the Irish media version of the explanation.

At its most simple, card sharing is based on broadcasting keys from an authorised card to other decoders so that they can use that single card to watch the same channel.

Sky knew about this in 1989 and the company providing Sky's system patented some techniques to stop it working efficiently. Most people did not have Internet access at that time. The Internet was a good delivery channel that allowed the key stream to be delivered to a larger set of users.

Card sharing was not user friendly and other options like pirate smartcards for Sky and other services hit the market and people used these.

The card to decoder link on Sky's system was not encrypted. The keys could be broadcast. There was a flawed implementation of an algorithm that would ensure that a card was a genuine Sky card. Pirate smartcards were a much bigger problem for Sky. After about 3 years, Sky dealt with the pirate smartcard problem. It had already decided to switch to digital.

Sky's digital system solved some of the problems that made the older version of card sharing work. It used encryption on the card to decoder link. Card sharing was still not user friendly and required a bit of set-up. Broadband and even flat-rate Internet access were not common. That added a cost to card sharing.

Technological developments made it easier to emulate CAMs in software and a range of set top boxes(decoders) hit the market that could be connected to a modem/router via a network cable. More people got broadband and these developments made card sharing more viable for a while. A German broadcaster went bust and a lot of cheap set top boxes that could be adapted hit the market. They were branded D-Box2 hence "dodgybox".

Card sharing was based on broadcasting the keys to watch a service. With the falling costs of servers and Internet bandwidth. it became possible to rebroadcast entire channels via the Internet. Cheap Android devices allowed people to use these streams to watch programmes. This was the point were Sky and other broadcasters lost control over their systems and when the economics of piracy changed. It became device independent and the user no longer needed a set top box to access the broadcaster's service.

Previously, cards sharing required a considerable investment in hardware by the user. Streaming dropped those costs for a user.

The cost of these streaming services are a fraction of the official subscriptions needed to access that programming. This made it difficult for Sky to compete technically and economically with piracy. The rights model had been based on countries. The streaming services could operate from servers in other countries and that made it much more difficult for Sky to deal with this problem because the subscription being used ny these services may not even be a Sky subscription.

definitely gonna be a very interesting few years in this, but again, i suspect we ll still be using illegal iptv for many years to come, the whole industry is in a complete mess, and rights holders have very few tools at hand to get the upper hand, im truly amazed how some of these companies are still going, as this must be causing serious functioning issues at this stage

I think the pubs would benefit a huge amount