How DStv stopped my mate Dave from pirating

bwana said:
This will end up in a massive debate as to the definition of "legally". If we decide that the only "legal" options are via providers that are licensed to provide content in SA then the article writes itself - Netflix and Showmax.

Oh, and those other services that nobody ever remembers that seem to fade away into obscurity as quickly as they arrived on the scene.

Of course they can't mention Showmax because they're Naspers…
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that only covers 90% of what Multi-choice does.
sadly the 10% remaining is the real draw card for them. supersport.

so sure, you can watch series and movies whenever you want with no ads at all via Showmax/Netflix but how do you watch the curry cup?
this is where that Journalistic integrity will be shown.
 
Suppose you see a bird walking around in a farm yard. This bird has no label that says 'duck'. But the bird certainly looks like a duck. Also, he goes to the pond and you notice that he swims like a duck. Then he opens his beak and quacks like a duck. Well, by this time you have probably reached the conclusion that the bird is a duck, whether he's wearing a label or not.
 
Well as I see it there are two equally disturbing possibilities here:

1) Dave is real and his conversation with Kevin about DStv Explora was so inspiring that Kevin felt it merited a front page editorial on MyBB.
2) Dave is fake and Kevin concocted a thin anecdote to disguise a blatantly paid for editorial on behalf of DStv.

Either way, the journalistic credibility of Kevin Lancaster has been destroyed.

Also, why does DStv only capitalise the first two letters of its name? TV is an acronym.
 
Baxteen said:
so sure, you can watch series and movies whenever you want with no ads at all via Showmax/Netflix but how do you watch the curry cup?
this is where that Journalistic integrity will be shown.
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"Legally" via streaming? Cord cutters don't.
 
Kevin Lancaster said:
You've uncovered the great conspiracy - MyBroadband articles are the driving force behind the government and Icasa not handing out spectrum. This article is the reason 5G is not in South Africa.

Now that you have uncovered the truth, we will have to leave our evil lair situated inside a volcano and only write articles you agree with. Thus making us a truly independent publication.
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Ok this is an outstanding response. Ill give you that.
 
We've all been trolled... well done myBB, you got us :o
 
Kevin Lancaster said:
For the record, this is not an advertisement. All sponsored content is marked as such. In fact, MyBroadband receives zero advertising from DStv.
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Mybroadband does not but what about dave, does dave get free dstv for a month? huh? does he?
 
Baxteen said:
no idea at all.
I use kodi to stream my series and illigal sites like crictfree to watch the presious little amount of sport I do care about.

I have not yet found any way to add sport to Kodi that works reliably, and for some reason whenever there is a way to do it, and someone posts about it here the account he uses to get support sport gets blocked, funny how that happens....
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My kodi gets skysport (not sure of the add on name) which almost always show our rugby. How legal is kodi?
 
rietrot said:
My kodi gets skysport (not sure of the add on name) which almost always show our rugby. How legal is kodi?
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not at all. but I am fine with that. until there is a nice walk through article published on this site on how to cut the cord legally I will remain a pirate.

please find me the name of the add on and PM it to me? do it in PM so it does not get shut down.
 
Not going to read every page...

but

not everyone hates DStv

Edit:
I pirate way less (series) in the past year, as DStv is getting more of the stuff I want.
 
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Baxteen said:
not at all. but I am fine with that. until there is a nice walk through article published on this site on how to cut the cord legally I will remain a pirate..
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Great rationalization...
 
Splinter said:
Great rationalization...
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you are right. even after there is a walkthough on how to do it legally I will still use Kodi to stream and I will torrent the really good shows so I can keep them.

but it would be nice to know there is an alternative that is completely legal...
 
Baxteen said:
not at all. but I am fine with that. until there is a nice walk through article published on this site on how to cut the cord legally I will remain a pirate.
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So piracy is ok because MyBB hasn't written an article on how to stream sport legally? :confused:
 
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