“The campaign also points out that people who watch pirate content can be – and are – visited by the police at their homes, and can even be prosecuted and sent to prison.”
Has this ever happened? The police dont deal with physical crimes half the time, let alone cyber ones
Think of everything going on in the country, and there’s a focus on people watching unreleased movies??
No wonder police are struggling, having to focus on all these little things that are insignificant.
Start with serious crime and work your way down.
My office was burgled 15 months ago, thousands of pounds of stuff stolen. Fingerprints and blood everywhere.
Last month I got a call from the Police to acknowledge there was a crime. They’ve done absolutely nothing.
Yet now they’re going to come for me for watching a football match that isn’t even bring broadcast in the UK?!
Yet you can’t get the police out to investigate a burglary or car theft and they don’t attend shoplifting calls…..
The police are only going after those that are hosting and operating and even then it’s taking them many years to even years to produce a case.
I’d say it would be difficult to justify any prosecutions as being in the public interest.
Glad the police have found something useful to do with their time. Serious crimes like this should be their top priority.
Anyway, off I go to work. Fingers crossed I don’t get stabbed or mauled by a killer dog on the way!
I assume most illegal streaming is of premier league football matches that are not broadcast in the UK, but they are broadcast everywhere else on earth.
You can pay almost £100 a month and still only see about 1/5th of premier league games in the UK. It’s unfair on football fans and makes illegal streaming the only way for fans to see their teams.
Make it legal, make it easy, make it affordable and illegal streaming dies out
Glad the police are cracking down on the serious offenses.
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Forget the youths whizzing around on mopeds robbing folks, the people breaking into others homes and getting sway scott free. The gangs who can kick someone senseless with the police doing nothing.
But cost the Billionaires a few pennies, and the police are ready to roll!
The laws haven’t changed around it in ages. You’re no more likely to get a visit from the police today as you were 5 or 10 years ago.
The majority of stories you get about streamers getting arrested are the people running the illegal subscription services and they are getting arrested for specifically hosting / facilitating the streams, rather than watching them.
The digital equivalent of ‘tell lies and your nose will grow’
I retired from policing a couple of years ago, and can confirm that there’s no way police in UK are gonna be chasing up web piracy and illegal streaming. Ignore overstretched and underfunded forces fielding badly trained officers to deal with car accidents, fights and domestic issues and all the police in UK’s current inability to deal with most things properly. Police force in the UK cannot maintain or manage their own IT to even be able to do basic admin functions within their own organisation, let alone some sort of IT capable of pursuing and investigating theft of Disney plus star wars episodes or music tracks. Most police IT is a strange system of massively bloated systems that don’t work together despite their needing to be able to do so. Custody and property systems and case file prep systems all speak different languages and don’t speak at all to systems used by other justice agencies. Added to which most officers couldn’t manage the sorts of details needed to compile evidence required to prove this level of investigation. I’m pretty tech savvy and know my way round drones, cameras, editing software and archival hard drives (tiny in comparison to someone who is an expert in ‘piracy’) and I was a minority amongst my many colleagues in different forces across the country. Compared to them I was basically a master level hackerman. Most of them could barely search for a video on YT without giving up or saying ” I’m not good at tech stuff”.
I used to pirate films when i was younger using usenet. There was a crackdown on it and it was full of malware so i stopped. I now actually dont agree with pirating or illegal streaming, despite me being part of the problem years ago.
I know its expensive, but i dont see why someone has the right to break the law just because they cant afford or refuse to pay for something. You wouldnt walk into a shop and go “this tv is too expensive, im just going to steal it then”
It’s funny because I’ve been pirating for over a decade and have never put in my bank details. Never even put in my email address! Only got a virus once in the early days. Sure there’s probably trackers but what website doesn’t these days? Pirating with pop up blocks and a vpn is likely collects far less personal data than using Instagram
I’ve been struggling to find a good site since souo2day went down 😞
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“The campaign also points out that people who watch pirate content can be – and are – visited by the police at their homes, and can even be prosecuted and sent to prison.”
Has this ever happened? The police dont deal with physical crimes half the time, let alone cyber ones
Think of everything going on in the country, and there’s a focus on people watching unreleased movies??
No wonder police are struggling, having to focus on all these little things that are insignificant.
Start with serious crime and work your way down.
My office was burgled 15 months ago, thousands of pounds of stuff stolen. Fingerprints and blood everywhere.
Last month I got a call from the Police to acknowledge there was a crime. They’ve done absolutely nothing.
Yet now they’re going to come for me for watching a football match that isn’t even bring broadcast in the UK?!
Yet you can’t get the police out to investigate a burglary or car theft and they don’t attend shoplifting calls…..
The police are only going after those that are hosting and operating and even then it’s taking them many years to even years to produce a case.
I’d say it would be difficult to justify any prosecutions as being in the public interest.
Glad the police have found something useful to do with their time. Serious crimes like this should be their top priority.
Anyway, off I go to work. Fingers crossed I don’t get stabbed or mauled by a killer dog on the way!
I assume most illegal streaming is of premier league football matches that are not broadcast in the UK, but they are broadcast everywhere else on earth.
You can pay almost £100 a month and still only see about 1/5th of premier league games in the UK. It’s unfair on football fans and makes illegal streaming the only way for fans to see their teams.
Make it legal, make it easy, make it affordable and illegal streaming dies out
Glad the police are cracking down on the serious offenses.
​
Forget the youths whizzing around on mopeds robbing folks, the people breaking into others homes and getting sway scott free. The gangs who can kick someone senseless with the police doing nothing.
But cost the Billionaires a few pennies, and the police are ready to roll!
Cool story. I look forward to their visit.
The real crime is Sky Sport pricing.
This is part of a wider international IP crackdown, also happening in Ireland where there’s been some arrests but these were for selling “dodgy boxes” basically an android device which you subscribe a few euro to for premium paid content.
https://www.thejournal.ie/wave-of-legal-warnings-dodgy-box-providers-across-seven-counties-6156967-Aug2023/
The laws haven’t changed around it in ages. You’re no more likely to get a visit from the police today as you were 5 or 10 years ago.
The majority of stories you get about streamers getting arrested are the people running the illegal subscription services and they are getting arrested for specifically hosting / facilitating the streams, rather than watching them.
The digital equivalent of ‘tell lies and your nose will grow’
I retired from policing a couple of years ago, and can confirm that there’s no way police in UK are gonna be chasing up web piracy and illegal streaming. Ignore overstretched and underfunded forces fielding badly trained officers to deal with car accidents, fights and domestic issues and all the police in UK’s current inability to deal with most things properly. Police force in the UK cannot maintain or manage their own IT to even be able to do basic admin functions within their own organisation, let alone some sort of IT capable of pursuing and investigating theft of Disney plus star wars episodes or music tracks. Most police IT is a strange system of massively bloated systems that don’t work together despite their needing to be able to do so. Custody and property systems and case file prep systems all speak different languages and don’t speak at all to systems used by other justice agencies. Added to which most officers couldn’t manage the sorts of details needed to compile evidence required to prove this level of investigation. I’m pretty tech savvy and know my way round drones, cameras, editing software and archival hard drives (tiny in comparison to someone who is an expert in ‘piracy’) and I was a minority amongst my many colleagues in different forces across the country. Compared to them I was basically a master level hackerman. Most of them could barely search for a video on YT without giving up or saying ” I’m not good at tech stuff”.
I used to pirate films when i was younger using usenet. There was a crackdown on it and it was full of malware so i stopped. I now actually dont agree with pirating or illegal streaming, despite me being part of the problem years ago.
I know its expensive, but i dont see why someone has the right to break the law just because they cant afford or refuse to pay for something. You wouldnt walk into a shop and go “this tv is too expensive, im just going to steal it then”
It’s funny because I’ve been pirating for over a decade and have never put in my bank details. Never even put in my email address! Only got a virus once in the early days. Sure there’s probably trackers but what website doesn’t these days? Pirating with pop up blocks and a vpn is likely collects far less personal data than using Instagram
I’ve been struggling to find a good site since souo2day went down 😞