I heard that because of some law the el classico (Important soccer match from spain) cant be shown in the uk but the people there said its no problem thats what IPTV is for. But Isnt this just normal piracy?
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IPTV is just simply television signal being broadcast over the internet. I think most cable companies are IPTV now.
What they probably mean is an internet TV provider, like Youtube TV, or Fubo
Yep basically. It’s a really common thing you can use on an Amazon firestick and you only pay an annual fee of £60-£80ish so it comes in cheaper than the sports packages we get from sky and TNT etc. plus they show all of the games, they broadcast from American tv channels etc..
It is illegal but it’s really commonplace and the authorities don’t seem to know how to stop it.
IPTV is just the overall term used to refer to streaming television delivered over the internet. (The “IP” refers to TCP/IP, the core communications protocol that is used to connect computing devices on the internet.)
You can have completely *legal* IPTV, like YouTubeTV, Pluto, BBC iPlayer, etc. You can also have *illegal* IPTV, which is what you’re probably asking about, where someone is re-broadcasting copyrighted content without the approval of the copyright holder. It takes very little these days to encode and stream video content over the internet.
With sports in particular, there are a LOT of people illegally rebroadcasting sporting events over the internet, and it’s difficult for rights holders to track down and prosecute them all. And they are wildly popular, because either having a subscription to all the sports broadcasters is rather expensive, and because in some cases the games are either geo-locked (restricted to a specific geographic region) or simply not available in your region.
I work in corporate tech. We offer an IPTV solution. We have a specific device (not that different than a Firestick, but not a consumer device), and on it, we manage an application that delivers channels. Those channels come from a server room somewhere in the local area, from which channels provided by a legitimate provider (DirecTV, mostly) is collected and distributed. We pay the license for this, and it is a legitimate legal IPTV system.
Sling is IPTV, so is YouTubeTV. Any service that delivers channels through the internet, rather than through lines connected to your house is IPTV.
Some of those services ARE illegal. There are ways to get those channels over the internet without paying for a service, or for the licensing. Or some do have a service charge, but not one that pays the actual channel providers, but rather one that goes to the individuals building a system to pirate those channels. It is normal piracy.
If you are paying for it through an appropriate and legal channel, IPTV is legal. If you are getting it some other way, it isn’t.
> But Isnt this just normal piracy?
Its riskier than normal piracy. In normal piracy, you sell a DVD and then go home. With IPTV, you need to maintain a server and accept connections for the entire duration of the event.
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