Clampdown on TV 'Dodgy Boxes'

I would estimate, there's 100sx1000s on this island using IPTV as end users.

You would have to wonder, if it's potentially such a slam dunk...... How many end users have Sky slam dunked as of 2026?

Surely there's a handful at least?

True. It does strike me though as the kind of thing that would be included in the reporting around it though.

I'm not defending them, I'm just outlining how they have a strong hand in a civil case

They have the link between the seller and the users, and if it came to a court case users who ignored cease and disest warnings.

They probably have more, they probably picked the 200 to send letters to from the 300 they had details on because they have social media posts about them watching EPL games at home or something.

On the other hand we are getting all sorts of rubbish from people about how they would stand up in court, get the proceutors phone and show the world how easy it is to get an illegal stream etc, or ask Sky to prove packets from a Sky source ended up on their home network.

There is a thread over on the Legal forum called "Freeman on the land mega merge". That's where a lot of this garbage belongs.

Noone is sticking up for Sky.

But you can see their angle. we paid for the right to broadcast the content so why should people who steal it and resell it get away with stealing our profits.

Any business would do the same is someone stole your design and started selling a product you made had a patent for.

What needs pointing out is the clueless idiots here who think they would be able to get away with being caught in a civil court.

Hopefully they all have good lawyers who would persuade from doing the idiotic things being posted here.

Why do you say they cannot delve into your packet content?

Oh the old "you must work for {insert name of company} line" if someone is not joining the echo chamber

Sky are not going to take down multiple streaming networks with this action.

But what they are going to do is scare some people into thinking twice about taking out an illegal streaming services, with the idea that if their supplier gets caught it could be traced back to them and they will get legal letters from Sky and the threat of court action.

A lot of people are not dodgy box experts, a lot of people don't know how they work, a lot of people are afraid of technology, even technology as simple as a dodgy box.

These sort of scare tactics work on these sort of people.

And Sky are well within their rights to take this approach to protect their product.

Oh the old "this old line again" deflection.

You wrote this:

"They probably have more, they probably picked the 200 to send letters to from the 300 they had details on because they have social media posts about them watching EPL games at home or something."

Just simple hearsay FUD bullsh*t. You come across as trying too hard!

Queue "Oh the old FUD accusation"!

If they take it to court and lose, they're f*cked.

Because you just seem to be taking every opportunity to repost the same scaremongering crap that you cannot confirm under different pretences….firstly stating 'sky have a strong case'; then stating 'they are just trying scaremongering' and then stating 'I am just trying to figure what is going on here'.

I find it a strange form of posting….something slightly disingenuous about it!

Sky can be scaring people and have a strong case at the same time.

Sure sky have everything on everyone according to you.......probably, you know, you believe, you wonder!

Well let's see how this one goes.

But current update remains....almost 3 years after the birth of this thread it's IPTV business as usual.