Illegal football streams are 'dangerous', study says

[LondonOllie]

Unfortunately, TV rights and licensing to stream programming is a very complex legal web.

 

[whitesocks]

Funniest experience I had was with a neighbour's computer. ..
The one that sticks in my mind specifically.... Gagonmyc**k.com
Funnier still was that his profile seemed to contain a history of visits to gay porn sites.

Well at least he deleted any history of visits to the arsenal web sites.
That could have very embarrassing for him.

 

[BuryMeInEngland]

You'd think that in the 21st century, they would be able to have supporter packages where you pay, i don't know, a £100-£200 (or whatever) for a season ticket to get every game live of your favourite team. People will still go to games. I would much rather have a season ticket to the actual game for the atmosphere etc. The only way BT or Sky will do that is when another company comes along and takes their customers away.

Major League Baseball was the target of a class action lawsuit that was recently settled. Previously if you wanted to watch baseball games live online, you had to buy an expensive package and you had access to all teams.

Now (for the upcoming season) you can buy a much less expensive option only for the team you want to watch. They still have their "blackouts" which are too complicated to go into, but this coming season it will only cost me $80 to watch the Washington Nationals for the season. Incidentally, the major league baseball online offerings are absolutely second to none and should be emulated by the FA and BPL. It is so good it was used last year for the online broadcasts of the Grateful Dead reunion concerts which had a massive audience.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

I's just like eveyone to know - tonight I watched an illegal steam - and I'm fine. I never felt once that I was in danger

 

[michaelden]

If just line eveyone to know - tonight I watched an illegal steam - and I'm fine. I never felt once that I was in danger

well after seeing the results I'm in danger of splitting my sides laughing at Liverpool & Arsenal

 

[Geyzer Soze]

well after seeing the results I'm in danger of splitting my sides laughing at Liverpool & Arsenal

Been texting Stells? Dude must be bleak!

 

[michaelden]

Been texting Stells? Dude must be bleak!

I don't have the heart to take the piss out of him. He used to get so excited when Livers played, shirt on and everything. I think he must be heartbroken

 

[WalkerboyUK]

I's just like eveyone to know - tonight I watched an illegal steam - and I'm fine. I never felt once that I was in danger

I think I ended up using 4 different streams across he evening, as they kept being switched off.
Pain in the arse.... but still better than paying to not watch us on Sky

 

[WalkerboyUK]

I use my old PC for streaming matches and films so I don't mind if it gets infested with malware and other crap. If it starts getting slow and I can't remove the crap I just format it. I'll keep going until the motherboard gives up and then get another cheap rig. Still a hell of a lot cheaper than a Sky subscription.

I do go halves with my old man for BT Sport though as it shows a lot of Italian football, as well as CL, Europa and the odd Premiership game. So it's worth it for us. Sky just simply isn't.

Same....
My laptop is used just for streaming football and downloading TV/movies.
Any shopping, banking etc is done on the kids homework laptop, which is new, clean and well protected.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

I think I ended up using 4 different streams across he evening, as they kept being switched off.
Pain in the arse.... but still better than paying to not watch us on Sky

Mine was sweet, practically HD and it barely flickered ... and it wasn't off one of those fancy kodi systems either, it was just a regular found off internet link ....

 

[WalkerboyUK]

Mine was sweet, practically HD and it barely flickered ... and it wasn't off one of those fancy kodi systems either, it was just a regular found off internet link ....

I've never managed to get a football stream to work on Kodi.
I think the best stream I ended up with last night was Spanish.
At the start of the season I was using my bro's NBCSN account and streaming directly through that, but as I'm not using a paid VPN it was running pretty slow and just became more and more frustrating, even if the quality was HD.
I might pay for a month and see if I notice any difference.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

I've never managed to get a football stream to work on Kodi.
I think the best stream I ended up with last night was Spanish.
At the start of the season I was using my bro's NBCSN account and streaming directly through that, but as I'm not using a paid VPN it was running pretty slow and just became more and more frustrating, even if the quality was HD.
I might pay for a month and see if I notice any difference.

quite alot of them give a free month trial anyway. HMA (Hide my ass) and VyprVPN do anyway, that'll keep you going for a couple months! And by then seasons pretty much over anyway

 

[Grapo2001]

What's the best way of finding decent streams though? I use a Mac mini connected to tv but often the streams are low quality and freeze all the time. My internet connection is is decent at around 12mb.

 

[Gb160]

I've never managed to get a football stream to work on Kodi.
I think the best stream I ended up with last night was Spanish.
At the start of the season I was using my bro's NBCSN account and streaming directly through that, but as I'm not using a paid VPN it was running pretty slow and just became more and more frustrating, even if the quality was HD.
I might pay for a month and see if I notice any difference.

If u want to get round geo blocking, use a DNS proxy...they tend to be a lot cheaper, and as they don't route the stream you'll get next to no buffering.
Most offer a free trial. It's a piece of piss to set up.
Try this one...
https://www.smartdnsproxy.com
Ive used their trial loads of times, it lasts two weeks, then just use a different email and start again.

 

[Monkey boy]

My kodi firestick was streaming perfectly when I first bought it, watched virtually every game at the start of the season in HD, now it wont go 2 minutes without buffering? I clear the cache before every game and have 38 mbs download speed so shouldn't be a problem. Anyone else use Kodi experience similar problems or know a fix for it?

 

[Gb160]

My kodi firestick was streaming perfectly when I first bought it, watched virtually every game at the start of the season in HD, now it wont go 2 minutes without buffering? I clear the cache before every game and have 38 mbs download speed so shouldn't be a problem. Anyone else use Kodi experience similar problems or know a fix for it?

Probably just thousands of people leaching off the same stream...one of the joys of kodi I'm afraid.

 

[mightyspur]

My kodi firestick was streaming perfectly when I first bought it, watched virtually every game at the start of the season in HD, now it wont go 2 minutes without buffering? I clear the cache before every game and have 38 mbs download speed so shouldn't be a problem. Anyone else use Kodi experience similar problems or know a fix for it?

Assume you have gone through the standard culprits? For example: http://kodifiretvstick.com/fire-tv-buffering-fix/

Could just be the low quality stream you are trying to use though. I would suggest trying to find another.

 

[shelfboy68]

My kodi firestick was streaming perfectly when I first bought it, watched virtually every game at the start of the season in HD, now it wont go 2 minutes without buffering? I clear the cache before every game and have 38 mbs download speed so shouldn't be a problem. Anyone else use Kodi experience similar problems or know a fix for it?

I had issues while watching the norwich game and that was with a paid add on so had to look around for another stream.
Try going into maintenance and as well as clear cache try purge packages as well.
Strangley if i watch kodi on my phone i have less trouble than on my box dont know why

 

[shelfboy68]

Have just got my broadband speed increased with virgin un to 200 mbps, although my ping test says its lower than that.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

Have just got my broadband speed increased with virgin un to 200 mbps, although my ping test says its lower than that.

You'll never get what they advertise. 'Up to' is the operative phrase. Doesn't realy matter that much for streaming anyway, anything over about 2Mbps is perfectly adequate, the problem is at the other end. YOu can have all the bandwidth in the world, if they don't cater for it the other side it's moot