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Winger
I think the main focus of this clampdown is the mainstream users who've bought kodi boxes and haven't much of a clue about how the thing works. Kill those streams and put the frighteners on and most will give up. That's a win for Sky etc. as they may buy a subscription. Most of these users won't even know about the option of paid streaming. The fact it's always 'kodi boxes' shows who is being targeted. FFS, these paid streaming services can be streamed via just about anything these days - Windows, Android, Apple, Roku, Amazon Fire, Chromecast, etc... People with a paid streaming service and VPN should be pretty confident they will continue to be able to watch matches. As long as they are hosting in some 'safe' offshore location then they should be pretty safe. Disruptions through DOS attacks may come and go, payment systems may be targeted but ISP's aren't going to stop people using VPN's so that rules out any prevention of access to the streams. I read some bollocks somewhere that they reckon they can identify when people are streaming matches / movies via VPN - can't see how they could do that other than a bandwidth increase but who's to say it's not just some huge file being downloaded? They wouldn't be able to know what match it was anyway!
As said many times, pretty crazy there is no official way to do this these days! Would willingly pay to watch SAFC games - that's the whole point Sky are missing. A lot of people are not doing it to save money - it's the ability to watch your own team's games, no whatever games Sky are showing.
As said many times, pretty crazy there is no official way to do this these days! Would willingly pay to watch SAFC games - that's the whole point Sky are missing. A lot of people are not doing it to save money - it's the ability to watch your own team's games, no whatever games Sky are showing.