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 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 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 13 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?

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago

There needs to be the Music app for Video app and maybe it's closer to the Postcast app but it's all there.

Any anyone that's missing, we have to assume you're in it for the exposure and we're doing you the favor by spreading your expression of free speech while you deal with how you want to fund it.

I didn't commission it so it's not my responsibility to make you whole on this endeavor. Stop pretending we owe you a specific amount of money.

No service was rendered. No service fee should be charged. If you want your content to remain a secret then why did you release it to not a form that can be copied at no cost to you.

I strongly argue that much of what we do around copyright is a violation of the first amendment in a thousand ways.

The fact that you can calculate damages against us is silly. Did I libel you? I recorded some knowledge I was given that was relayed to someone else.

The fact that you've provided something that can be copied perfectly is on you. Doesn't make you a fucking word god. How faulty does our memory need to be before this game of telephone because legal in the eyes of copyright?

Using a magical language doesn't override out right to use our free will to study our encountered world.

It is unjust to restrict us from sharing our findings. This is our free expression. These are chains that no corporate or other person or persons can be trusted to possess as empherial as they may.

Any legal framework that forces us to silence ourselves is crime against our humanity.

The longer you refuse the faster we build a video app that mathematically routes around any that may be constructed. Your imagination may be limited but the laws of mathematics finds a way.

How can you punish our innate desire to communicate in clarity.