BBC uncovers pirate Sky STBs

[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....