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PostPosted: 15:15 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Watching Nbc sports in the UK. Reply with quote
For those that are interested, I managed (finally) to get NBC working on both my laptop and android device to stream all the Premier league matches.

All legally and above board as well.

Cost me £7 per month in VPN and $19.99 for the NBC subscription for the rest of the season.

Screw BT sport wanting to charge me £35 per month on top of sky!
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PostPosted: 15:46 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah but now you have to put up with cringy american pundits... I just stream of my laptop for free Smile

Championship streams are a pain but can always find a prem stream.
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PostPosted: 15:57 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Yeah but now you have to put up with cringy american pundits... I just stream of my laptop for free Smile

Championship streams are a pain but can always find a prem stream.


Nah NBC use British pundits for the "soccer" so all good. 👍

Yes but streaming is illegal. 🤣 (#real reason = shite quality)
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PostPosted: 16:13 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hawkeye1250FA wrote:
Nah NBC use British pundits for the "soccer" so all good. 👍

Yes but streaming is illegal. 🤣 (#real reason = shite quality)


Aren't the half time pundits american though, and women? but that's a different matter Laughing
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PostPosted: 16:25 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
If it's all legal, why use a VPN?
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PostPosted: 17:48 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
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If it's all legal, why use a VPN?


Or it won't work.
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PostPosted: 17:53 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
I can get you all channels for £30 for 6 months Smile
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PostPosted: 18:25 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pjay wrote:
I can get you all channels for £30 for 6 months Smile


Not in HD I don't think. And not legally I'd guess. 🤣Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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PostPosted: 18:30 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Not in HD I don't think. And not legally I'd guess. 🤣Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.


Yup, HD is pretty much standard across the board, only channels not broadcast HD are not.

It's not legal, but nobody has ever been prosecuted for watching an illegal stream though.
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PostPosted: 19:02 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Feel free to point us all to the law that this method is breaking.

You won't, because you can't, because it isn't. 👍😁

Making sure to highlight the actual law... Not just where some corporation is losing some money... 👍
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PostPosted: 19:14 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hawkeye1250FA wrote:
Feel free to point us all to the law that this method is breaking.

You won't, because you can't, because it isn't. 👍😁

Making sure to highlight the actual law... Not just where some corporation is losing some money... 👍


It's true, the law has changed, Sky can technically sue you for loss of earnings.

It's never happened though.

https://www.lawinsport.com/topics/articles/item/key-updates-on-copyright-protection-and-enforcement-for-sports-media-rightsholders
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PostPosted: 19:25 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Agree on the piracy law.

But this isn't piracy. I'm paying nbc for a service which I am receiving. All done through nbc.

Nothing to do with sky.

To put that argument into the context I see it as:

Bmw could sue me because I bought an audi and not a BMW.
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PostPosted: 19:33 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes, but somehow the law recognises the Football Leagues contracts with TV companies as something that is enforceable by law if anyone circumvents it as loss of earnings.

Like it or not, if you are watching a game of live League Football in the UK and not watching it on an official licenced broadcast, you are committing an offence.
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PostPosted: 19:33 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pjay wrote:
Hawkeye1250FA wrote:
Feel free to point us all to the law that this method is breaking.

You won't, because you can't, because it isn't. 👍😁

Making sure to highlight the actual law... Not just where some corporation is losing some money... 👍


It's true, the law has changed, Sky can technically sue you for loss of earnings.

It's never happened though.

https://www.lawinsport.com/topics/articles/item/key-updates-on-copyright-protection-and-enforcement-for-sports-media-rightsholders


I've read this end to end. As I expected - nothing in there applies to this method. 👍

Bloody good read though - top marks for interesting post Pjay. Have some Karma.
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PostPosted: 19:36 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Yes, but somehow the law recognises the Football Leagues contracts with TV companies as something that is enforceable by law if anyone circumvents it as loss of earnings.

Like it or not, if you are watching a game of live League Football in the UK and not watching it on an official licenced broadcast, you are committing an offence.


Until such time as that is shown to me written down - in a legal document. I will have to disagree with you.

Not a chance of that being enforced. Ever.

What if I buy my own motorised sat dish and point it at a mexican satellite to watch Stoke v west brom. Your telling me that's illegal. No chance.


Perhaps if I then put that on a screen and charge people admission. Yes completely agree. Watching something myself that I've paid for. No sorry not a chance 🤣
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PostPosted: 19:45 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hawkeye1250FA wrote:
I've read this end to end. As I expected - nothing in there applies to this method. 👍

Bloody good read though - top marks for interesting post Pjay. Have some Karma.


The judgment in Filmspeler also confirmed that end users (i.e. those viewing the unauthorised streams) could also be held liable for copyright infringement, based on acts of reproduction of the protected content.

Sports rights holders and broadcasters are now able to take action against those selling media players incorporating add-ons containing hyperlinks to infringing content13 - and also in appropriate cases against the end users receiving that unauthorised content (a cautionary message for consumers!).

The grey area is of course that you are not watching a SKY or BT broadcast, but whilst I agree it shouldn't be illegal, it is.

https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=9ea7d2dc30d5fa2fd6fb44e94cfab97cb569aad86ed3.e34KaxiLc3qMb40Rch0SaxyLaNj0?text=&docid=190142&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=598923

Should Article 5 of Directive 2001/29 be interpreted as meaning that there is no “lawful use” within the meaning of Article 5(1)(b) of that directive if a temporary reproduction is made by an end user during the streaming of a copyright-protected work from a third-party website where that copyright-protected work is offered without the authorisation of the right holder(s)?

You could argue that you are not buying from an unauthorised source, but the source isn't selling you the service on the understanding you are from the UK. You are taking this outside of the law by accessing from the UK.
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PostPosted: 19:50 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fair comments.

But as you have ready spotted yourself, this isn't an unauthorised stream. It isnt bt or sky.

It's a different countries broadcast. Ill agree with you as far as I could imagine sky getting arsey with nbc about allowing it. But as far as my understanding of that text goes, I'm doing nothing illegal.

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PostPosted: 19:55 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Re: Watching Nbc sports in the UK. Reply with quote
Hawkeye1250FA wrote:
For those that are interested, I managed (finally) to get NBC working on both my laptop and android device to stream all the Premier league matches.

All legally and above board as well.

Cost me £7 per month in VPN and $19.99 for the NBC subscription for the rest of the season.

Screw BT sport wanting to charge me £35 per month on top of sky!


https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/vpn-safe-legal-or-illegal/

The key bit basically is that aside from Iran - vpns are completely legal to use. The only main caveat being that any activity that would be illegal without a vpn, is still illegal behind a vpn.

Doesn't apy though as the original act of watching Nbc sports is not illegal to begin with. It doesnt simply "become" legal just because a vpn is being used to facilitate it.
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PostPosted: 19:55 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hawkeye1250FA wrote:
Fair comments.

But as you have ready spotted yourself, this isn't an unauthorised stream. It isnt bt or sky.

It's a different countries broadcast. Ill agree with you as far as I could imagine sky getting arsey with nbc about allowing it. But as far as my understanding of that text goes, I'm doing nothing illegal.

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Of course, which is why it's a grey area, the law didn't specify who and what is deemed as authorised, but I imagine if it did get to court, you'd lose, as Sky would use the loss of earnings reason to get you convicted.

Like I said though, an end user has never been prosecuted for just streaming and probably never will be. You'd have to be one unlucky fucker to be the first one ever. The numbers are on your side.
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PostPosted: 19:56 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Agree in principle. But without a faiy major change to the wording - I would be extremy confident of winning that case very quickly.
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PostPosted: 21:04 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Until such time as that is shown to me written down - in a legal document. I will have to disagree with you.

https://www.nbcsports.com/terms-use

It will be in there somewhere.

If watching NBC in this country was all above board then you wouldn't need to be using a VPN.

It's civil rather than criminal.
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PostPosted: 21:19 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Hawkeye1250FA wrote:
Until such time as that is shown to me written down - in a legal document. I will have to disagree with you.

https://www.nbcsports.com/terms-use

It will be in there somewhere.

If watching NBC in this country was all above board then you wouldn't need to be using a VPN.

It's civil rather than criminal.
No Misuse of the Services or Content . You may not: (1) transmit or make the Service or Content available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers or Devices at the same time; (2) make any software contained in the Service a standalone product; (3) take any action that will infringe on the intellectual property or other proprietary rights of NBC Sports Gold or any third party software provider; (4) sublicense or assign the software; (5) view any Content other than within the country or location authorized by your NBC Sports Gold Pass ("Territory").
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PostPosted: 23:33 - 11 Mar 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yup. Completely agree with you, NBC will have issues with it but that does not make it illegal. As I've said all along.



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