Admin phantom Posted July 30, 2019 Admin Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 The Premier League and UEFA have both been granted fresh permission by the High Court to have the UK's major ISPs block 'pirate' streams in real-time. The orders, obtained via separate processes, are part of ongoing efforts to undermine the supply of live matches delivered over the Internet by unlicensed services. While rightsholders and anti-piracy groups often deploy multiple strategies for dealing with online copyright infringement, blocking websites, streams, and servers is now one of the most common. The Premier League broke new ground on this front in 2017, after it obtained a pioneering injunction which enabled it to track live ‘pirate’ streams and have them blocked by leading ISPs BT, Virgin Media, EE, Sky Broadband and TalkTalk in real-time. With backing from the High Court, the Premier League deployed its system during the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons. We can now confirm that the Court recently granted permission for the efforts to continue during the 2019/20 campaign. A High Court order signed off July 15, 2019, by Justice Arnold, but as yet unannounced by the Premier League or the Court, will be the basis for the blocking mechanism during the upcoming season. Thus far, one ISP has confirmed the existence of the order. “A number of unidentified servers associated with infringing Premier League match footage will be blocked until the end of the 2019/20 Premier League season,” Sky notes. Unlike other blocking orders targeting torrent sites or streaming platforms with a fixed domain, the servers streaming Premier League content are “unidentified” until its anti-piracy partners are able to locate them a few minutes before matches begin. The relevant IP addresses are then forwarded to the ISPs who block them under the authority of the Court. TorrentFreak has been able to confirm that other ISPs are aware of the new Premier League order but are yet to make a public statement. Late 2017, UEFA followed in the footsteps of the Premier League by obtaining a similar order covering the period February 13, 2018, to May 26, 2018, in an effort to protect European matches. A month later in July 2018, UEFA was given permissionby the High Court to expand and extend its campaign until July 12, 2019. Earlier this month, UEFA obtained permission from the High Court to continue. As yet, no associated documents have been published by the Court but both Sky and Virgin have confirmed they will be blocking ‘pirate’ servers again, with the Court’s authorization, until 2021. “A number of unidentified servers associated with infringing UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Nations League, UEFA European Qualifiers and UEFA Friendlies match footage will be blocked until the end of the 2020/21 Champions League or Europa League competitions,” Sky notes. Virgin states that it will block “Various Target Servers notified to Virgin Media by UEFA or its appointed agent for the duration of the UEFA 2019/2020 & 2020/2021 competition seasons.” The technical details of the blocking systems deployed by both the Premier League and UEFA are largely secret although some insiders have recently been prepared to talk more about what happens behind the scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyredredrobin Posted July 30, 2019 Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 I'm guessing that a VPN and streaming from a non UK site or even a non EU site will overcome this hurdle, will it not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjak Posted July 30, 2019 Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 Greedy Premier League clubs set to make even more money.........hopefully streamers will find a way round it, as they normally do. Viva la pirates!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natchfever Posted July 30, 2019 Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 What about Bet365 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted July 30, 2019 Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 Not that I partook in such activities. However some while ago a friend of mine- talking mid to late 2000's used to get their streaming for useful PL games and good internationals i.e. UEFA WC qualifiers or Euro 2008 qualifiers that caught their interest through CCTV or PPTV- something like it anyway, was Chinese broadcasting of varied foreign football. Worked quite well. Maybe long gone now but will ask my friend if it's still useful/a goer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsince1994 Posted July 30, 2019 Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 In cases like this the hackers always win. Always. There are certain parts of the internet that ISP's would swear blind have been shut down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMWANG50 Posted July 30, 2019 Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 I know some IPTV guys are looking at adding a VPN at source so the end user won't need one which could be a bit of a game changer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyderInACan Posted July 30, 2019 Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 4 minutes ago, TMWANG50 said: I know some IPTV guys are looking at adding a VPN at source so the end user won't need one which could be a bit of a game changer Yes blocking or masking the address at the source will circumvent it I'd have thought. My friend will be relieved . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyderInACan Posted July 30, 2019 Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 35 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said: However some while ago a friend of mine- talking mid to late 2000's used to get their streaming for useful PL games and good internationals i.e. UEFA WC qualifiers or Euro 2008 qualifiers that caught their interest through CCTV or PPTV- something like it anyway, was Chinese broadcasting of varied foreign football. Worked quite well. IPTV I guess you mean. My friend uses it and it's very good. So he's told me. All English channels and shedloads of worldwide stuff too. Apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted July 30, 2019 Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 9 minutes ago, CyderInACan said: IPTV I guess you mean. My friend uses it and it's very good. So he's told me. All English channels and shedloads of worldwide stuff too. Apparently. Nope, my friend assures me that it definitely was one of those out of PP Stream, CCTV and so on, early days stuff though but decent! I however have heard of IPTV too though, the name at least- not looked into it properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team In Keynsham Posted July 30, 2019 Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 49 minutes ago, redsince1994 said: In cases like this the hackers always win. Always. There are certain parts of the internet that ISP's would swear blind have been shut down. Generally agree with this: in the battle of corporate tech giants and some spotty 15 year old hacker in Eastern Europe, my money is always on David, not Goliath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Med/MadHatter Posted July 30, 2019 Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 3 hours ago, TMWANG50 said: I know some IPTV guys are looking at adding a VPN at source so the end user won't need one which could be a bit of a game changer I know my IPTV provider has a VPN locked in, they are from the States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephjnr Posted July 30, 2019 Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 This would be far less of a problem if the PL and UEFA offered their own services and cut the balls off Sky and BT. Even £200 a head a season would be a tremendous saving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsince1994 Posted July 31, 2019 Report Share Posted July 31, 2019 12 minutes ago, Lucan said: Like what? Drug dealing mainly. There was a multi million operation to shut a site called silk road down but loads of mirrors and backups existed so the site was down for all of a week I think (not the original site but the operation didn't do anything to prevent online drug sales) Interestingly some of the people who worked on silk road were instrumental in bringing down some child porn sites that the 'internet police' were struggling with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsince1994 Posted July 31, 2019 Report Share Posted July 31, 2019 Since I'm on the subject. Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road was arrested and put in prison for life with no parole. When he was arrested one of the charges was apparently him paying to have 6 people murdered. This charge was subsequently dropped when it was found that 5 of the people were actually still alive and I believe another had died in unrelated matters. Gotta love that USA justice system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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