I think you nailed it right there buddy.
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I have just received a telephone call from a marketer pushing "Fiber TV" which includes access to SKY Sports.
I didn't ask if it was a SKY product but assume if sports comes bundled it is.
Boop boop de do
Marilyn
Edit: It may not be a SKY product. If you go to the support page on their web site and hover your mouse over the postal address link the alt text shows an address in suburban Christchurch.
What's the website? Sounds like someone selling an Android box with illegal sports access. Wonder how they got your info too?
Judging by the crude website def not a sky product.
Sky sports uk
The website...it...hurts my eyes
Sounds like a customised Kodi TV Box, Kodi is an open source bit of software that searches the web for streaming links that quite a few people are starting to use.
Some guys in London were recently arrested for selling these customised tv boxes
Is this one one everyone is talking about?
http://fibretvnz.co.nz/
That would get shut down pretty quickly would it not?
Now illegal in Europe (with *stringent fines and jail time) but maybe not here (yet)?
*After a number of Kodi arrests were made last month a man accused of selling "fully loaded" boxes has now been fined a massive £250,000.Malcolm Mayes, from Hartlepool, sold IPTV boxes, sometimes referred to as ‘Kodi’ boxes or ‘Android’ boxes, which had been modified to allow the users to freely view content that should otherwise be paid for.
Do yourself a favour and go onto Aliexpress - You can search 'Android box' or 'IPTV' and you'll get thousands or different boxes, majority of them are Kodi in one form or another.
I just recently upgraded and use the hybrid box linked below ie. It has dual TV tuners for both types of aerial - Sky Satellite and UHF fuzzy aerial as well as the media player components.
No need to switch between HDMI channels, you just use the one remote to switch between the different programs from within the box ie. freeview/KODI/Netflix/Internet browser.
You can also connect a portable hard drive and it can record NZ freeview for up to and hour delay, pre-program daily/weekly/monthly scheduled recording.
Using these tv boxes are far superior products to using chromecast and the likes IMO, as the boxes have a direct power source.
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...787308219.html
In the UK it's Trading Standards who brought the cases and it's for breach of copyright. Not sure whether that applies in NZ or whether Trading Standards here would see it as part of their job?
The NBR reports that Sky is taking action against streaming box providers using Kodi with their lawyers serving a 'cease and desist' letter for breach of copyright to Matamata based 'MyBox' provider selling a Kodi Box and SKT being successful in getting the 'MyBox' Facebook page taken down.
This article is behind the NBR paywall:
https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/sky-tv...ge-cg-p-203034
This is going to be 'whack-a-mole' stuff for SKT...
Yes, and that approach worked well for the music and film industry...
Sky need to be embracing change, not fruitlessly trying to fight it.
Yes, you cannot condone the actions of these people. However the fact that a market for it exists shows that Skys business model is outdated and that are fighting this in a way that has never worked and will not work. All it does is create more bad will for a company that already has a poor PR brand.
The answer to music pirates was iTunes, not suing Napster.
The answer to film / TV pirates was Netflix, not suing people for torrenting.
The answer to pirating sports streams is...? Fanpass was a partial answer due to its flexibility. To remove it and hope to force people back into locked in expensive contracts when alternatives - albeit questionable in their legality and usability - exist seems shortsighted.
Disclaimer not a SKT holder.