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I'll second that. Hopefully a second series in the pipeline.

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From 27/11/17 the Curzon Home Cinema Freesat app will no longer be available on Freesat set top boxes or the web app.

Does this suggest that they are closing down altogether? Anyone heard anything?

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This judgement appears to clarify that streaming premium content through subscribed IPTV services or any other means that avoids paying the correct subscription to Sky is unlawful.

So the authorities are not just prosecuting suppliers of fully loaded Kodi boxes and those who share pirated material, they are also going after individual viewers now.

Huge implications for those who are receiving premium material in this way - and the fine if you're caught is eye watering. It's only a matter of time now before Sky's legal team get a legal authorisation from IPTV providers to find out who subscribes to their services to access illegally acquired content. Frankly, I'd be pretty worried at this point if I was taking advantage of this situation. They will be able to go back six years to bring forward a court case against you.

I did warn previously about the dangers of watching premium content in this way and received a firm rebuke from some that it was not illegal. I am not happy that I was proved right on this occasion, because this will prove to have been a very costly mistake for those who believed comments made that people who did this were doing nothing wrong.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...-a8020856.html

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It was inevitable that that there would be a end game that is for sure OB.

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Yes. The only good thing that will come out of this is that stamping out piracy in this way may help prices to come down (or at least not go up by as much as they would have done otherwise).

The fine imposed on individuals does sound a bit steep, though. And why aren't they closing down the IPTV providers? They are there large as life, it's not as if they've gone underground!

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I'm not worried in the slightest as i use a vpn.
Also the one in this case was streaming it not viewing it and as a civil matter he can say "no thanks" to legal costs and the worst case is bailiffs who can be told to do one if it's a residential property and they don't get in.

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But a vpn won't be much use to znyone who subscribes to IPTV services. The evidence will be there on the accounts ledgers!

Actually, the worst case is not the bailiffs, it's imprisonment for failing to pay the fine that will get you in the end.

It doesn't matter whether the individual concerned was watching the pirated material. It has now been established that you are committing an offence simply by streaming it, which is the breakthrough Sky needed.

I don't think anyone should be resting on their laurels about this. So many people seem to think the future will never catch up with them because they are getting away with it now. How wrong they are always proven to be.

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Ah i've read the article again it refers to kodi addons etc not the methods i use aka us tv login and network sites such as cw, fox etc.
I personally have disconnected my android tv box with kodi although the box nor kodi itself is illegal it just made more sense to buy a mini windows pc and use that as it gets everything no problem.
But a vpn certainly does protect you regardless.

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There's a more comprehensive article about this case here:-

https://torrentfreak.com/high-court-...g-case-171026/

My views about the dangers for people who are not IT literate on using illicit streams and also handing over payment details to those charging for such services are well documented on these forums already.
This is one of the few places where people seemed to have actually listened to what I've said,
unfortunately for the most part I seem to have been whistling in the wind for the past few years with these warnings.
Most people put their blinkers on where their free/cheap streams are concerned.

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Yes, people need to be aware that they are entrusting their bank/credit card details to criminal organisations.

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I certainly think that your method is the safest, but I'd keep on your toes, if I were you.

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Oh certainly keeping a eye on it but if SKY made it easier to use SKYGo without using awful silverlight or needing to sub to skygo extra i wouldn't need to do such things.
I mean BT have a app for BT sports on windows 10 surely sky can do the same it'd make life a lot easier lol.

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The guy was actually uploading it to other users, although it was ruled earlier this year in the ECJ that streaming was illegal.

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It's a civil matter the thing with the press is you have one lot saying one thing and another saying something else.
As you correctly said this guy was providing content, same as earlier cases they were people selling the boxes.

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Disregarding the rights of wrongs of this, it amazes me that the authorities have time to pursue this sort of thing to protect the rich film studios, whilst at the same time say that, for example, online paedophiles & some burglaries won't be investigated due to a lack of resources.

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I'm not sure you're correct here. Are you saying that stealing online content is less of a theft than stealing a DVD from a shop? And that the only people who lose out are the studios and no one else? And what evidence is there that online paedophiles are not being investigated?