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posted by on Monday March 13 2017, @10:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the time-for-the-penguin-on-top-of-your-television-to-explode dept.

Kodi set-top boxes that allow football fans to stream live matches without a licence will be blocked by the UK's four biggest ISPs, after the High Court approved a piracy clampdown order.

Sky, BT, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media will all be required to block servers that stream Premier League football games.

"The new block will enable a proportionate and targeted restriction of content that would otherwise have been proliferated to unauthorised websites and IPTV devices," said the Premier League after it secured the court order from Mr Justice Arnold on Wednesday.

BT and Sky fling millions of pounds at footie matches to win exclusive rights to broadcast the games live. Earlier this week, BT Sport secured the exclusive rights to show UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League matches until 2021.

But broadcasters and the Premier League have been fretting about the rise of Kodi set-top boxes, which allow football fans to watch live streams of copyrighted material on their TVs without paying for a subscription.

The High Court granted the order to block the servers that stream the matches via the Kodi boxes under section 97a of the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act.

"We will continue working with ISPs, government, and other sports content producers to protect consumers from illegitimate services that offer no recourse when services are removed, provide no parental controls and, in many instances, are provided by individuals involved in other criminal activity," the Premier League said.

Source: ArsTechnica


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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by bob_super on Monday March 13 2017, @11:48PM (4 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday March 13 2017, @11:48PM (#478694)

    Entitled generation?
    I want it all (for free), I want it all (for free), I want it all (for free), and I want it now!

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday March 14 2017, @12:17AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 14 2017, @12:17AM (#478703) Journal

    Entitled generation?

    Like the availability and the price and the associated services/quality don't play a role in pushing someone into piracy [lifehacker.com.au], right?

    (if you thing access to streaming live sports is different from access to streaming movies, think again)

    One year ago my brother in-law and I made a decision. We wanted to do the right thing. We wanted to try and pay to watch Game of Thrones season 5...
    We couldn’t just pay. We had to try to pay.

    There weren’t many options.
    ...
    This left us with one option. The only option you’re supposed to be considering when watching Game of Thrones: that option was Foxtel. The cheapest way to pay Foxtel to watch Game of Thrones? Foxtel Play.
    ...
    Let me start with the basics. I would like to state from the outset: Foxtel Play is a service people are paying anything between $25 and $95 dollars for. If I was buying just for Game of Thrones you’re talking $30 minimum. This is a deal. This is considered a discount. To clarify: the package I was provided for review would have cost regular punters $50. A month.

    Here are some of the issues I regularly encountered.
            Foxtel Play runs — at best — at an extremely low resolution. 480p is the best you’re getting.
            Foxtel Play runs a totally noticeable bar at the side of the screen that I can only assume is piracy protection.
            Foxtel Play only allows you to use three different devices at one time. You could change this once per month. My PlayStation 4, my tablet and maybe my brother in-law’s PS4 were my default three devices during my time using Foxtel Play. Say I’m cooking and I want to watch something on my laptop, that’s not gonna happen unless one of the other devices gets the boot.
            Foxtel Play would frequently crash. It would frequently stop to buffer. How frequently? Once I tried to watch a movie with my family and it crashed five times during the movie. Once I tried to watch a live UFC event on my laptop and I had to restart the Foxtel app four times. I missed entire fights.

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Tuesday March 14 2017, @12:37AM (2 children)

      by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday March 14 2017, @12:37AM (#478711)

      I'm responding to "my free [pirate] stream went down"...
      I'm quoting a singer who's been dead for 25 years...

      I could push my tongue further through my cheek, but that'd be bloody and you wouldn't even see.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 14 2017, @01:17AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 14 2017, @01:17AM (#478719) Journal

        You just Poe-d [wikipedia.org] yourself.
        In today's post-truth world, with that many alt-facts, it doesn't seem wise to omit the smiley sign.

        (I'm usually grin-ing [soylentnews.org] in such occasions; because I'm such an idiot that I cannot take the occasional - or is it pervasive? - stupidity of this world in a way relaxed enough to just smile at it. I admit, at times, it's a substitute for groaning)

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @03:48AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @03:48AM (#478753)

        I suppose a proper response then would be an Oompa Loompa number.