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[News] Dodgy Firestick Seller Jailed







dwayne

dwayne

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Jul 5, 2003
16,459
London
Comrade Sam said:
I believe you can buy a legitimate fire stick and use common advise on the you tube to watch anything. So I've been told by my children.
Why involve a third party?
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Yer it is quite funny that people equate firestick with dodgy straight away. Amazon sell them legitimately as streaming devices. And I've used it before for netflix , peacock , viaplay etc.

When sky installed sky q at my place recently the cheeky fecker that did it unplugged my firestick and put it on a table.
 


Papa Lazarou

Papa Lazarou

Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Jul 7, 2003
19,426
Worthing
Comrade Sam said:
I believe you can buy a legitimate fire stick and use common advise on the you tube to watch anything. So I've been told by my children.
Why involve a third party?
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Accordiong to a friend of mine, you need to pay for an annual subscription in order to access all that dodgy goodness, so you would at least need to engage with a 3rd party for that.
 


BNthree

BNthree

Plastic JCL
Sep 14, 2016
11,602
WeHo
Comrade Sam said:
I believe you can buy a legitimate fire stick and use common advise on the you tube to watch anything. So I've been told by my children.
Why involve a third party?
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Convenience and stability. Small monthly/annual fee for something that generally "just works" vs the whack-a-mole changes and updates when doing it for yourself.
 


Commander

Commander

Arrogant Prat
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Apr 28, 2004
13,730
London
Ditch the 3pm Saturday blackout and half the users will stop doing it. People talk about using a firestick to not get fleeced by Sky etc, and that's definitely part of it, but a massive part of it is not being able to watch your team play on TV on a Saturday.

I get the reasoning for the blackout, and it made perfect sense at the time. But it is ridiculous now.
 




US Seagull

US Seagull

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Jul 17, 2003
4,998
Cleveland, OH
Commander said:
Ditch the 3pm Saturday blackout and half the users will stop doing it. People talk about using a firestick to not get fleeced by Sky etc, and that's definitely part of it, but a massive part of it is not being able to watch your team play on TV on a Saturday.

I get the reasoning for the blackout, and it made perfect sense at the time. But it is ridiculous now.
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It really is ridiculous. Between my YouTubeTV (for NBC and USA) and Peacock, I can see every Brighton league game for a relative pittance. While you guys have to juggle multiple sources and still miss out on some games due to the blackout.

Sadly, I don't get the cup games. FA cup is on ESPN+ which is stupidly expensive for what it is. I'll sign up for a month if we get to the semi-finals, maybe.
 




Flounce

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Nov 15, 2006
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US Seagull said:
It really is ridiculous. Between my YouTubeTV (for NBC and USA) and Peacock, I can see every Brighton league game for a relative pittance. While you guys have to juggle multiple sources and still miss out on some games due to the blackout.

Sadly, I don't get the cup games. FA cup is on ESPN+ which is stupidly expensive for what it is. I'll sign up for a month if we get to the semi-finals, maybe.
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Depends on the Firestick, I haven’t missed a single first team Albion game for 2 years now, when not at the game :smile:
 




Easy 10

Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
62,554
Location Location
I'm on my 4th year with IPTV on the Firestick, paying £60 a year subscription (cash in hand to a bloke round the corner from me). The football has got a bit glitchy of late so I'm going to have to get a decent VPN by the looks. But for movies alone it more than justifies itself. And I got the Usyk-Fury fight on a flawless stream that didn't skip a beat. Wouldn't be without it.
 


Iggle Piggle

Iggle Piggle

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Sep 3, 2010
6,129
US Seagull said:
It really is ridiculous. Between my YouTubeTV (for NBC and USA) and Peacock, I can see every Brighton league game for a relative pittance. While you guys have to juggle multiple sources and still miss out on some games due to the blackout.

Sadly, I don't get the cup games. FA cup is on ESPN+ which is stupidly expensive for what it is. I'll sign up for a month if we get to the semi-finals, maybe.
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Isn't YouTube TV about $80 a month?
 


Wozza

Wozza

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Jul 6, 2003
24,595
Minteh Wonderland
US Seagull said:
It really is ridiculous. Between my YouTubeTV (for NBC and USA) and Peacock, I can see every Brighton league game for a relative pittance. While you guys have to juggle multiple sources and still miss out on some games due to the blackout.
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Football here is (for now) predominantly aimed at live crowds in England, with TV second.

For the rest of the world, it's simply a TV show.

Only idiot Albion fans advocate PPV here btw. It would KILL our club.
 






Bob!

Bob!

Coffee Buyer
Jul 5, 2003
11,796
Vin said:
You don't need to pay to subscribe to someone's service anymore. Can get a decent package by following a few simple steps online.
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Legally?
 


Comrade Sam

Comrade Sam

Comrade Sam
Jan 31, 2013
1,991
Walthamstow
Papa Lazarou said:
Accordiong to a friend of mine, you need to pay for an annual subscription in order to access all that dodgy goodness, so you would at least need to engage with a 3rd party for that.
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A stranger I overheard on the bus watches almost everything for free on his Amazon fire thingy via downloadable apptitudes and a Visible Panty Number.
 




Bold Seagull

Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...
Mar 18, 2010
30,566
Hove
Lenny Rider said:

Up against Huw Edwards non custodial sentence it does seem a tad harsh, but clearly they wanted to send out a message.

Asking for a friend...........

There are only three groups of people who can enter your property without permission, HMRC, The Coroner and The Gas Board, so whilst punishing some of the sources, as in this case, will they ever be able to ever prosecute anyone for having, and watching, such a said firestick?

How would they catch you without a warrant to come in your house, and Policing that would be a needle in a haystack job surely?
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The HSE don’t need a warrant either.
 




happypig

happypig

Staring at the rude boys
May 23, 2009
8,297
Eastbourne
A friend has an IPTV sub.
His reasons are :
1. To get all legal matches he would have to pay around £800 per year to three different providers (and even then wouldn't get all the games). He simply cannot afford that.
2. Sky/TNT/Amazon "bundle" all the sports so he would have to pay for stuff he never watches (Golf/Boxing/F1 etc).
 






Eeyore

Eeyore

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Apr 5, 2014
26,669
happypig said:
A friend has an IPTV sub.
His reasons are :
1. To get all legal matches he would have to pay around £800 per year to three different providers (and even then wouldn't get all the games). He simply cannot afford that.
2. Sky/TNT/Amazon "bundle" all the sports so he would have to pay for stuff he never watches (Golf/Boxing/F1 etc).
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I pay £48.75 a month for TNT Sports and SKy Sports through Virgin. That includes broadband. So in reality it's half that. Always good to shop around.
 




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