MSE News: Premier League free streaming sites: Is it legal?

Geordie_bear

Skie wrote: »

I know people are fed up with paying so much for Sky Sports and only getting a fraction of the games, with many not broadcast in the UK but broadcast elsewhere.

Surely if they are actually broadcasting a non-UK stream then the recent EU pub ruling would apply? It's only when you re-broadcast the Sky or BT feed that you are really breaking the law.

the Premier League are really clever and they've said anyone braodcasting a game with the premier league logo on are infringing copyright so legally they're still screwed cos all streams have it on

patman99

Yes, but a lot of foriegn broadcasters use technology to put their logo over the top of the Premier League one.

The_Jakal

ChopperST wrote: »

They do - http://www1.skysports.com/nowtv/

Herbalus wrote: »

Trouble is that their small fee is £9.99. Four weekends a month is £40 so if you watch one game a week you might as well get the sports package.

Or you could go to the pub and for the same price get three pints for every game.

Thanks for the heads up, I wasn't aware of this.

Although I did put "small" fee and to me £9.99 is not a small fee haha!

Herbalus

The_Jakal wrote: »

Thanks for the heads up, I wasn't aware of this.

Although I did put "small" fee and to me £9.99 is not a small fee haha!

I know, it's ridiculous. You can go to the cinema for less than £9.99.

Who on earth is willing to pay £9.99 per day to watch football on TV?!

Roy.

Being a student, if i'm not watching the game in a pub/bar it is usually one of these sites. Always thought it was technically illegal though.

TeddyUK

m5rcc wrote: »

They will never close down all the streams. Twitter has plenty of links for games and if ones uses a VPN you can log onto free streams of EU channels that stream EPL games.

Well EPL started and www .firstrow.org still works under new domain. Exactly as predicted.

Kite2010

Net result is more promotion for the sites.

The blocks are easy to get around.

Wayne3765

Many of these " Banned sites " can still be found just by searching for them and adding the word

Proxy

to the search.