BBC uncovers pirate Sky STBs

[m404]

If it continues then we may see the broadcasters having to change their model like the music industry has with things like Spotify – it could become that wide-scale.

so, basically, someone like BSkyB would adapt the spotify business model, making you pay a fixed monthly premium fee, and letting you consume content as much as you like ...

... oh, wait ...

damn, these experts nowadays :lol3:

 

[Ray4438]

Inside out london on Monday the 10/2/14

 

[dfdream]

The problem here is not that customers don't want to pay its that its too expensive.
Today Wayne Rooney signed a 5 year deal with Man U for £300,000 a week.
Man U are heavily in debt but they know that the foolish money from Sky and BT Sports can maintain this bubble..

 

[marty]

Who the f**k deserves that sort of money, just plain stupid

 

[thisntaht]

Who the f**k deserves that sort of money, just plain stupid

In fairness taking the hair off your ass and sticking it on your head ain't cheap

 

[marty]

In fairness taking the hair off your ass and sticking it on your head ain't cheap

I'd rather be bald with a hairy ass

 

[dazzer69]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03v37bw

 

[reknaw155]

Liverpool - where I am from!

 

[barry2012]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26052012


about boxs

 

[hwads]

Sky are well aware of whats going on, and are probably happy to leave it alone, once the boxes have run a year and lost the the subs (if they last that long) most people won't know what to do with them to get them working again and bin them.
Also its probably a tiny proportion of legit subscribers.

 

[boysheff]

i've heard (through a engineer of virgin, who i know) that sky and virgin are in court trying to get the court to agree to spy on people through there router (ip address), for the reason of music/movie etc download.

 

[Martincape]

Glad I'm with BT. Sky gave my address details away to a solicitor based in London once, claiming I had illegally downloaded a Ministry of Sound album.

 

[DaMacFunkin]

These figures they band about don't add up, as with DVD piracy, hardly anybody who buys pirate DVDs would have gone to the cinema to watch the film in the first place, same with cs, quite a lot of people would not pay the price that sky and virgin charge, so you can't really say that sky are losing shed loads of money, they ain't, it really is marginal.
P.s. when DVD piracy was big business, going to the cinema really made a big comeback, just as cs is starting to become big, broadcasters seem to have more money than ever to acquire sporting rights....