F1 2024

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Speedster said:
The quoted (website?) price was a lot more at the time.
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Speedster said:
I see it'll be more next time
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You got lucky. There is some variance between the web and apps depending on time of year and whatever exchange rate Google locked in but it varies wildly by country. Like USA is $84.99 for the year or $10.99 / month
 
So basically month-to-month with F1tv you can get the whole season in 8 renewals (~$48) for 2025. If you willing to skip 1-2 races then you can do it for 7.
 
quovadis said:
So basically month-to-month with F1tv you can get the whole season in 8 renewals (~$48) for 2025. If you willing to skip 1-2 races then you can do it for 7.
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Pretty much. December to March and the summer breaks are wasted money...
 
quovadis said:
In SA "IPTV" usually refers to third party pirate sites that offer every channel on the planet but is far from legitimate and it's best effort.
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Only by those who try to ease their conscience. Why not just call them pirate streams and keep IPTV for IPTV?
 
Speedster said:
Only by those who try to ease their conscience. Why not just call them pirate streams and keep IPTV for IPTV?
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People didn't do it with torrents, they're not about to start now with IPTV. DSTV is in the minority, like Linux distros were back then...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate uses...
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But they never referred to torrents anything other than torrents. Torrents have never been a legitimate delivery channel for media, and everyone who knows anything about torrents knows that. People who refer to pirate streams as IPTV forget that there are a multitude of legitimate (I.e. non-pirated) IPTV services.
 
Speedster said:
But they never referred to torrents anything other than torrents. Torrents have never been a legitimate delivery channel for media, and everyone who knows anything about torrents knows that. People who refer to pirate streams as IPTV forget that there are a multitude of legitimate (I.e. non-pirated) IPTV services.
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Yes but the pirates argued that the peer to peer protocol had legitimate uses such as sharing Linux distros. It's the same principle with IPTV, it's become synonymous with pirate streams even though there are legitimate use cases...
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Yes but the pirates argued that the peer to peer protocol had legitimate uses such as sharing Linux distros. It's the same principle with IPTV, it's become synonymous with pirate streams even though there are legitimate use cases...
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The vast majority of IPTV use cases are legitimate
 
I am not a Lawyer, so take this with a pinch of salt, but I have been reliably informed that South African Law makes it Illegal to UpLoad Copyrighted material, but downloading content is NOT Illegal. The argument being that it is up to the copyright holder to ensure that the DMCA, or applicable laws in their own jurisdiction, are used to police their own content and its distribution.

However, Using Torrents to download or watch Copyrighted content is Illegal in South Africa because of the way that torrents work. Inorder to download you must also be seeding (Uploading) so you are in breach of the copyright act.

As for DSTV taking down Illegal streaming services in South Africa, on the face of it the clients are not at risk, however, if they are paying a subscription for the service then they could be charged as accomplices for aiding and abetting a criminal act.

The raids over the Last two Days should lead to some interesting Court Cases in the near future and finally give clarity to what is and is not legal in terms of South African copyright Law.
 
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