MultiChoice advocating for way to ask ISPs to block illegal streaming websites

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DStv wants illegal streaming websites blocked in South Africa

DStv parent company MultiChoice seeks legal reforms in South Africa to make it compulsory for Internet service providers (ISPs) to block websites illegally streaming its licenced content, even without a court order.

In feedback to MyBroadband, the company acknowledged it has engaged with South African ISPs to request that they block illegal streaming services.
 
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These are the actions of a company sounding their death knell.

When you can't keep customers because your product just isn't very good, you must go after what little there is to keep what you have.
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And a company that STILL thinks it is the main cat on the block about piracy and copyright and is self-appointed so. Straight outta the Netherlands with that attitude they are. They THINK they are the law on piracy and copyright but are a company, a very too-big-for-their-shoes one at that. They forget the government and legislature is the law, not them.
 
"The company explained that the ECTA incentivised ISPs to take down content hosted on their own networks"
How? What are the incentives?
 
Yeah, they want to try an Spanish/French/Italian Copy Cat effort here, even if these blocking efforts are a dismal failure. That has cost hundreds of millions of $ US.

Eina!!!

Wonder which Fat Cat has a Tender lined up.
 
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You know what is the first thing that will happen when ISPs start policing its users.....they gonna drop them like a sack of sht......
Thankfully users have "choice" these days..........monochoice isn't one of them.........

Monochoice alienated their userbase..........check
Monochoice is pricing them self out of the market............check
Monochoice is targeting south african citizens that is isn't their users......well you are writing checks your shaddy ass can't cash.
Monochoice has crappy services............check
Monochoice is spamming ex and current users...........check

The hallmarks of a shaddy company, attempting overreaching tactics that is going to backfire on them, if anything if monochoice hasn't realized by now, south africans are some of the most "hardegat" consumers I know they will rather struggle with alternatives out of principle........

Watch this space, not even their new Canadian overlords will be able to save them at this pace.....


Mybb tell me you are in bed with monochoice without telling me you are in bed with them.............These monochoice hit pieces is getting long in the tooth.....
 
Its very expensive and time consuming to get an act of parliament passed. And then who is going to police it?
 
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