DStv anti-piracy push in South Africa

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DStv cracks down on piracy kingpins in South Africa

MultiChoice is taking the fight to Internet streaming pirates in South Africa, announcing the arrests of two major players in the past week.

The company describes piracy as a significant threat to local broadcasters and the creative industry as a whole through lost revenue.
 
Jan said:
DStv cracks down on piracy kingpins in South Africa

MultiChoice is taking the fight to Internet streaming pirates in South Africa, announcing the arrests of two major players in the past week.

The company describes piracy as a significant threat to local broadcasters and the creative industry as a whole through lost revenue.
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Weird flex but ok

Nobody cares about multichoice except mybb apparently
 
Stuff like this just makes me want to be even more like Captain Jack Sparrow.
 
"...an individual who allegedly sold pirated Internet streaming devices, enabling users to access DStv content."

Y would anyone want this? Free sports?
 
Petec said:
"...an individual who allegedly sold pirated Internet streaming devices, enabling users to access DStv content."

Y would anyone want this? Free sports?
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it must have been a guy selling one of those IPTV services offering like 7500 channels from all over the world .... those guys will just add in anything and everything they can get their hands on to add up to the 7500 to 9000 channels they want to pit on offer .... and locally i can see the attraction if it includes DSTV because of the sport - i have seen a few guys selling cheapie chinese TV boxes with IPTV loaded on and they charge you like R2000 for two years and you get those aforementioned 7500 channels of Live TV and a lot of on demand series and movies too .... i was never tempted by those things because who has the time to go looking for schedules for live TV - i really don't want to watch stuff when they want to force me to watch it at the time they want to broadcast it - and i totally prefer the on demand model way of things like Netflix etc offer - now if only the SA based Netflix can sort out their content
 
naughty001 said:
.... i was never tempted by those things because who has the time to go looking for schedules for live TV - i really don't want to watch stuff when they want to force me to watch it at the time they want to broadcast it - and i totally prefer the on demand model way of things like Netflix etc offer - now if only the SA based Netflix can sort out their content
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DStv does on demand. Problem there is it expires, but so does most streaming content.

My solution - an external recorder (DStv allow copy-once of broadcasts). But it's hard to find one now and yes, it takes some effort to setup recordings. And you can't copy HD quality.

They've got PVR decoders that record, would be an advantage if they didn't charge (a lot) to access your own paid for harddrive... if they just changed that I recon their customer bleed would noticeably slow down.
 
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