The proliferation of illegal IPTV services is a direct result of the fractured streaming and PayTV market. In many European countries you need up to 5 services to follow all your favorite football teams League, Champions league, cup and Nations League (bleh!) games. This can add up to close to 200 Euros per month in countries like the UK or Switzerland.

Additionally, in the UK the only way to watch your teams 3PM match on the telly (as they like to say) is to subscribe to a foreign service illegally as they are blacked out locally and there is no legal way to purchase foreign subscriptions.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Damn people pay that much? I get why people pay seedboxes, such a win

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Football is not usually distributed over torrents and thus seedboxes. These IPTV providers restream the live feed with a few seconds delay - just like their legal counterparts. They usually cost around 5-20€/£ per month, depending on the subscription duration (and number if simultaneous streams).

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 6 points 19 hours ago

Exactly. On top, we have this everywhere not only in media. Cost of living is insane and we are used to barely existing service for all the money we pay.

But dont dare to make an app that doesnt do the "swoosh", "shaky screen" or otherwise isnt "polished" enough. Its "Go corpo or go home."

I wonder if there is any solution? When will we have extracted enough profit? Should we do 16 hr work days? Maybe then corporate overlords will be happy?