Iptv not working

I expect it won’t be long before sky start looking at people who have cancelled tv subscriptions but kept broadband especially those who used to have sky sports, if they find they have spikes in data usage around key match times and no vpn to hide what they are doing, a fair few will start getting a knock. Won’t be on mass just a few every now and again to make people think twice.
 
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Subway said:
I think only the people at the top of the chain will be sought out not anyone watching from home 👍
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It’s hard to see how they could be, given the numbers of people doing it. It pays a lot more to try to cut off those at the top who provide the service.

There are lots of articles about this sort of thing in the press to remind everyone it’s illegal but no one was ever done for “pirating” videos or copying cassettes in the 80s, even though we all knew it wasn’t strictly legal.

The other thing is that Sky make revenue from their advertising based on the reach of their channels. There are a lot of people who will stop watching Sky Sports if IPTV does go completely under. I can’t help but feel these articles are mostly published in the hope that people will simply start subscribing legally. I doubt they want their advertising reach to be affected.
 
atypical_boro said:
I suppose it might, but how are they gonna prosecute? It’s not a handful of people, it’s millions and millions. And of course, they’ll be getting rid of a lot of their customers too…..
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Can't see any prosecute for end users. I don't think there will be, too many people watching these systems. They are starting to throttle broadband services at the peak times, eg when the football on hence why best to use a vpn. They will continue to scare ppl via their facebook ads and stories in the papers, and will still go after the people selling it.
 
atypical_boro said:
It’s hard to see how they could be, given the numbers of people doing it. It pays a lot more to try to cut off those at the top who provide the service.
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There are two ways to reduce the prevalence of this. One is to stop the source the other is to stop the demand. If one fails you can expect them to try the other. It would be a representative high level "user" or group of users that they used to make an example. And yes this did happen with video piracy.
atypical_boro said:
There are a lot of people who will stop watching Sky Sports if IPTV does go completely under.
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Really? Do you actually believe that Sky base the sales of their advertising on the "reach" of their product through illegal piracy...
 
Muttley said:
There are two ways to reduce the prevalence of this. One is to stop the source the other is to stop the demand. If one fails you can expect them to try the other. It would be a representative high level "user" or group of users that they used to make an example. And yes this did happen with video piracy.

Really? Do you actually believe that Sky base the sales of their advertising on the "reach" of their product through illegal piracy...
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Of course. It doesn’t need to be written down. The organisations who advertise on Sky know what Sky’s reach is, both illegally and legally (officially and unofficially more accurately), and Sky will price that accordingly, why wouldn’t they? It isn’t illegal to say “we believe Xm also watch unofficially” in exactly the same way the BBC might say that about unlicenced viewers.

If IPTV goes under Sky lose viewers. They may increase revenue (a bit) with new or re-subscribers but would it be enough? Lots of folk are used to it being free now. This is exactly what happened with the music industry, and the consumer won.
 
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Subway said:
I think only the people at the top of the chain will be sought out not anyone watching from home 👍
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Exactly this, they want to cut the head off the snake so to speak, stop the supply chain, without those suppliers there will not be any demand, they are not interested in the end users.
 
NormanbyRed77 said:
100% per cent this will start happening
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This definitely won't happen.

ISPs who also have cable TV services may start warning suspected streamers, and if they are subpoenaed to provide records they will, but snooping on the traffic of an individual user and then proactively sharing that information with the authorities is not a good look for an ISP (and possibly illegal too).
 
I have said for years that only if Sky would ask for something sensible, as far as prices, then snide IPTV would be decimated. They create a market for these services due their own high prices.
Like a lot of ex-customers - I was loyal and paid them a lot of money, over the years, but the prices just kept creeping up and up.
They obviously make a lot of money selling to overseas broadcasters with iFollow etc. and that is what a lot of people are buying into with the snide IPTV - they can't even get that legitimately from Sky in the UK.
 
If sky or any other planform charged a reasonable rate per match most would watch the games they want and pay. Its the fact they package it all together and basically have to pay for stuff you have no interest in at all. Mainstream tv should be the same pay for what you watch not a huge package.

The football authorities could even offer a app per division where you pay to watch it and broadcast themselves
 
NormanbyRed77 said:
Can't see any prosecute for end users. I don't think there will be, too many people watching these systems. They are starting to throttle broadband services at the peak times, eg when the football on hence why best to use a vpn. They will continue to scare ppl via their facebook ads and stories in the papers, and will still go after the people selling it.
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I don't see how they can realistically throttle bandwidth. I do not subscribe to any TV. I have freeview and broadband. I mostly stream TV and have to stream to get 4K content. That's considerably more than HD IPTV.
 
NYboro said:
I don't see how they can realistically throttle bandwidth. I do not subscribe to any TV. I have freeview and broadband. I mostly stream TV and have to stream to get 4K content. That's considerably more than HD IPTV.
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They meddle with your DNS requests, apparently.
 
I have just started using the free version of Proton VPN and so far so good but not sure if the speed maybe be a problem further down the line, just wondered has anyone else used it and had any problems as so far it seems too good to be true ?
 
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