DStv battling commercial pirate streaming operations in South Africa

PaulGherkin said:
Actually me old man told me they did it in the 1960s already, with those reel-to-reel tape recorders. Recorded them songs directly off the wireless. I also believe Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak did it too
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8 Track Tape cassettes where frigging awesome. Pity they did not catch on.
 
dualmeister said:
Piracy has been around since the 1980's and is bigger and more advanced than ever.
It will never be stopped. But, OK DSTV you go boy!

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Lol Copyright piracy dates back to the 17th century with statute of anne, for literary works and 1902 for music works, 1970 saw digital piracy uptick and 1980s online piracy. You are a few centuries off for Copyright infringement as a whole....



UB40 said:
1980s?

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Lol don't think that is what he meant.....But considering the pirate code, they at least had a better backbone and ethical behavior than mulitchoice and frikkie
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Sport, is not all it is cracked up to be. Years ago, I would watch every thing.

These days, - too late at night - not bothered, too early in thr morning - bugger it, not going to wake up. On during work, could not br bothered to switch on the Mi-Box, connect it to the "spare monitor", and connect the computer speakers. Just too much effort. If I am home, and got nothing to do, and I remember that there is something on, then I will watch. Only the Wife watches stuff regularly.

These days, I couldn't be bothered. DSTV have lost any value proposition here 20 plus years ago.

The Wife is happy with Netflix and YouTube, and their endless drivel.
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I am not a fan of sport either.
 
PaulGherkin said:
Reliability issues, audio quality wasn't up to scratch. There's a reason why the Philips Compact Cassette won that round
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Mostly size and convenience, 8 Track was big and bulky. :)

But dayum, you could put on in, in Cape Town, and drive to Jo'burg, with just a single tape. As gor reliability, they could have engineered that issue away.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Mostly size and convenience, 8 Track was big and bulky. :)

But dayum, you could put on in, in Cape Town, and drive to Jo'burg, with just a single tape. As gor reliability, they could have engineered that issue away.
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that's because the tape was in an endless loop. You can do that with CDs and also even in the 80s cassette decks were auto-reverse except the cheap-ass radios.

The Compact Cassette was a far better medium, which I suppose you could call the miniature version of reel-to-reel tape, combined with it's low cost and the Sony Walkman made it push these 8-track cartridges out of the marketplace.
 
PaulGherkin said:
that's because the tape was in an endless loop. You can do that with CDs and also even in the 80s cassette decks were auto-reverse except the cheap-ass radios.

The Compact Cassette was a far better medium, which I suppose you could call the miniature version of reel-to-reel tape, combined with it's low cost and the Sony Walkman made it push these 8-track cartridges out of the marketplace.
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An 8 Track Walkman would be the same size as a normal size Compact Cassette player. :)
 
It’s surprising that, with 2025 just around the corner, some people are still paying for DSTV with its high prices instead of exploring IPTV. I’ve been using IPTV for nearly two years now, and I have a reliable provider who offers great support and adds all the content I want—series, movies, and live TV—at very reasonable prices. We really have to appreciate the innovation of IPTV and how much it’s changed the way we watch TV.
 
IPTV is getting really good now with 4k streams which are better than DSTV quality.
 
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