I very very rarely use streams but what Sky fails to understand is that I wouldn’t buy their service even if there wasn’t any stream available. It is simply too expensive.<p>I am talking about Sky Sports here for example. Also in Germany for example. Last I checked, they wanted 30 euros per month and a yearly subscription when I want to see a Bundesliga match every x months. I have a season ticket for my team so I see all matches live and away games sometimes on TV. Even if I were to justify the price (it’s exactly the same price as my season pass), it’s not guaranteed that they show the match, it may be shown by DAZN, who also want 30 euros per month, but at least don’t ask for a year’s commitment. Neither service sells pay per view - I would gladly pay 5 - 10 euros per match seen
> ilegal stream let criminals in<p>Suggesting the stream operators will hack your bank account. Reminds me ot the "pirate media will ruin your VCR/CDDVD Player fake propaganda. Ironically... the virus came from a big reputable corporation <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...</a>.<p>A lot of industries would be in for some criticism and bad PR after that. But not these guys. They don't give a shit about reputation.
It's been a long time since I used dos/windows, but is it really "C:/>" at the prompt nowadays? Used to be "C:\>" back in my day
The resellers I’m aware of, who advertise a “Scandinavian” set of channels that include Sky UK/Ireland, are based in the Philippines and the Stalker server is/was in Russia.<p>To even get the system to work, you have to VPN out of the UK or Ireland to start with.<p>I think the police might have some difficulty.
The day they understand that for sports events there is definitely a big enough audience willing to pay single matches instead of being forced to buy the entire season...<p>Also, decoupling it from telecom connection packages (that, at least, in Spain)
I think sports suffers from fragmentation in the same way as other content.<p>To watch all the televised football games in the UK you need Sky Sports, TNT and Amazon Prime.<p>Even then you can only see half the games whereas in other countries almost all Premier League matches are televised meaning that geographical licensing restrictions are also in play.<p>I would happily pay a fairly significant fee to watch all matches conveniently, but it’s simply not available to buy.