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    UK illegal sports streaming arrest

    The UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has arrested a man in the north-western city of Manchester on suspicion of running a series of illegal sports streaming websites

    The 27-year-old is believed to be operating streaming sites that allow unlawful access to subscription only TV services which is costing industry more than £10 milllion.

    The man was arrested at his home in the North West by the City of London Police’s specialist IP unit where detectives found evidence of what is described as an “industrial size” streaming operation, including 12 computer servers streaming a wide range of sporting events from across the world, which have since been seized and taken away.

    The operation was supported by Greater Manchester Police with the suspect being taken to a local police station for questioning.

    DCI Danny Medlycott, the newly appointed Head of PIPCU, said that the September 1 operation was the unit’s third arrest in relation to online streaming and sendt out a strong message that we PIPCU was homing in on those who knowingly commit or facilitate online copyright infringement.

    “Not only is there a significant loss to industry with this particular operation but it is also unfair that millions of people work hard to be able to afford to pay for their subscription-only TV services when others cheat the system,” he said.

    PIPCU is based within the Economic Crime Directorate of the City of London Police, the National Lead Force for Fraud. It is a specialist police unit dedicated to protecting the UK industries that produce legitimate, high quality, physical goods and online and digital content from intellectual property crime.

    The operationally independent unit launched in September 2013 and is initially being funded by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), which is part of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

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    Did he have streaming just or was he providing clines I wonder?

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    Sounds like he was streaming channels rather than providing shares. Although if he was doing so much buisness with one it would not be a stretch for him to do both.

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    Surely people don't pay for streaming, the quality would be crap? What sort of upload line would he have to have to do that???

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    Quote Originally Posted by thestoress View Post
    Surely people don't pay for streaming, the quality would be crap?
    We'll there are some stupid people in the world who do really silly things for money.


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    Quote Originally Posted by thestoress View Post
    Surely people don't pay for streaming, the quality would be crap? What sort of upload line would he have to have to do that???
    With VDSL it is possible to get 100Mb upload if you pay for it. My home broadband has 70Mb down and 20Mb up and that is a standard household sub. A business sub could be configured for higher upload. I would imagine that we will see more of these streaming services in the future. The phone companies are all moving into "triple play" or "quadruple play" - phone, internet, TV, mobile deals at this stage, supported by the roll out of fibre to the cabinet or fibre to the home (FTTC, FTTH). eircom, the Irish "national" phone line provider has rolled out FTTC and is busy flogging streaming TV services including HD to the home - all delivered over the existing twisted pair copper from the cabinets to the house.
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    It will be all streaming at some stage...
    The likes of netflix will be the norm.
    The like of sly add no value to the product for the customer except inflate the price.
    Its still the same sport you watched 30 years ago but the price has rocketed up.
    Look at yesterday nearly £1bn spent in transfers in premiership to kick a ball around..
    Mad....

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    With VDSL it is possible to get 100Mb upload if you pay for it. My home broadband has 70Mb down and 20Mb up and that is a standard household sub. A business sub could be configured for higher upload. I would imagine that we will see more of these streaming services in the future. The phone companies are all moving into "triple play" or "quadruple play" - phone, internet, TV, mobile deals at this stage, supported by the roll out of fibre to the cabinet or fibre to the home (FTTC, FTTH). eircom, the Irish "national" phone line provider has rolled out FTTC and is busy flogging streaming TV services including HD to the home - all delivered over the existing twisted pair copper from the cabinets to the house.

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    Sky already have moved on..
    You can now subscribe to most sky channels on their NowTV service.. which is streaming..

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    Quote Originally Posted by thestoress View Post
    Surely people don't pay for streaming, the quality would be crap? What sort of upload line would he have to have to do that???
    Incorrect, the quality is actually fantastic and almost hd quality on some streaming sites. I'm talking about the paid ones here not the crappy ones you use to get years ago on Justin dot TV. Perhaps it is stupid to pay to watch these sites but when football is your passion and you can't make it or afford to go and watch at the grounds each week it provides a damn good alternative.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dfdream View Post
    It will be all streaming at some stage...
    Agree, CardSharing in HD may well have been shut down by Sky but this has put iptv (streaming) on the map as an alternative.
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    As long as legal IPTV takes the initiative and provides quality affordable services before the crooks get a foothold in mass market streaming. There is obviously some level of illegal streaming going on, but it should be possible to detect and police such usage from the server sites. Card sharing probably less easy to detect due to the small bandwidth required. I would imagine that this aspect of illegal usage will diminish as the operators put more technological resources into securing their offerings.
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    As fat-tony said earlier, there are some major investments in the Irish market with ESB and Vodafone looking to provide 100% fibre-to-the-building broadband network offering speeds from 200 Mbps to 1000 Mbps, and hoping to have it completed by 2018. That entry speed of 200Mbps is for up and down, If someone has a minimum of 200 Mbps upload, IPTV could stream 4k UHD TV with no buffering and crystal clear pictures.

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    Agree, CardSharing in HD may well have been shut down by Sky but this has put iptv (streaming) on the map as an alternative.
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