Skys policy helping VPN & Piracy???

[seandrews]

Does anyone think that Skys, well actually Comcast's, policy on Showing an enormous amount of ads and/or delaying shows UK airings has any effect on people's use of VPNS & the piracy rate in the UK & mainland Europe?

skys complete reluctance to have Ad free programming both linear and on demand must be a massively impactful factor behind piracy.

another way people consume TV is via VPN's watching shows that have already aired in North America Sky do not feel the need to grace the UK with parity on when stuff is aired. 

Sky must have the view that the audience will wait patiently and watch TV when Sky say so.

im not sure they are aware that VPN's exist

nor are they aware that people pirate TV shows that have been on in the US but haven't yet been in in the UK.

have Sky ever made comments about either of these practices and why they do so little to improve their services to minimise the effectiveness of them against their business.

surely if they wanted to make money they would offer TV programming as soon as possible as airing in other territories and also the option to watch this content without a baffling and humongous amount of advertising layered within it.

[bob1234]

@seandrewsMuch is to do with licencing restrictions a programme may be licenced to be shown in the USA but not UK or the other way round. VPN tries to get round these restrictions.

[daveNOS]

@seandrews Adverts have zero influence on someones decision to illegally stream or download content, any who suggest that is either trying to justify their thievery or deflect critisism for their thievery.

Piracy is solely down to people not wanting to pay for content/believeing they are entitled to watch everything for free.

[seandrews]

How very naive

plus saying you don't work for Sky doesn't help. 

all the best streaming services don't have ads. 

Sky/Comcast are digging their own way to obscurity.

[PandJ2020]

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@seandrews wrote:

plus saying you don't work for Sky doesn't help. 

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You won't get a reply from Sky here...

[nolte]

Those who don't want to pay forsky will still not pay for sky if the ads were removed

I mean netflix, disney plus are ad free but people still will share passwords and log ons with friends to avoid paying  the price of disney or netflix etc

[daveNOS]

@seandrews Thats funny because Netflix has adverts, Amazon Prime has adverts, ITVX has adverts(unless you pay), I am in no way naive there is zero justification for illegally streaming or downloading content, it's no different to walking in to a shop and walking out with goods you haven't paid for.

The statement about me not working for Sky is irrelevant to my opinion, I can't stand thieves and you won't change that will ridiculous attempts at justifying theft.

[Mark39]

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@daveNOS wrote:

Piracy is solely down to people not wanting to pay for content/believeing they are entitled to watch everything for free.

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I agree. People pre-disposed to thieving will use anything to justify their actions to themselves. 

[rscott]

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@seandrews wrote:

How very naive

plus saying you don't work for Sky doesn't help. 

all the best streaming services don't have ads. 

Sky/Comcast are digging their own way to obscurity.

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Disney+ has adverts in the US and they're coming to the UK too.

https://press.disney.co.uk/news/disney+-to-introduce-an-ad-supported-subscription-offering-in-late-2...

[Grilly]

Those that watch from one of the dodgy streaming boxes & paying subscription need to realise they may well be funding organised crime...

[Mark39]

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@Grilly wrote:

Those that watch from one of the dodgy streaming boxes & paying subscription need to realise they may well be funding organised crime...

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I suspect they don't care - as long as they get what they want. That's the mentality of such individuals.

[TimmyBGood]

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@seandrews wrote:

another way people consume TV is via VPN's watching shows that have already aired in North America Sky do not feel the need to grace the UK with parity on when stuff is aired. 

Sky must have the view that the audience will wait patiently and watch TV when Sky say so.

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Not sure how you imagine Sky could insist any rights owner releases their content with 'parity'.  The combined airtime of material Sky actually owns is a miniscule fraction of the broadcast hours even of just the Sky-branded channels, let alone all the others in the EPG.

[SlenderRobert]

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@Mark39 wrote:

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@Grilly wrote:

Those that watch from one of the dodgy streaming boxes & paying subscription need to realise they may well be funding organised crime...

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I suspect they don't care - as long as they get what they want. That's the mentality of such individuals.

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I watch HBO Max and Peacock USA via subscriptions, fully paid directly to them, and view the content on an Apple TV 4K box or 4K Firestick with a (paid for) DNS proxy server. Does this make me a bad person?

I do it this way largely because quality means a lot to me. It's the only way to get correct frame rates and full HDR on a lot of content. 

The subscriptions I pay are exactly the same as what an American citizen would pay. The money is going direct to the service provider and they are providing me with the service, in the exact same way as my Sky Stream subscription goes directly to Sky and they provide me with their service.