Fire stick for football?

blackstar

Hello all,

I currently have sky sports but am hoping someone can recommend a particular fire stick so I can get more Premiership games and also uefa and champions league? For example with a fire stick could I get the Brentford Newcastle game tomorrow? 

Thanks all

Neil_Jones

As that's a 3pm kick off and is therefore in the "blackout zone" the answer is "not legally".

facade

It would seem to be available for streaming in the majority of the rest of the World, but not the UK.

https://www.livesoccertv.com/match/4355156/brentford-vs-newcastle-united/

All you would need is a subscription to a channel that is showing it, and a VPN that would allow you to access it from a country that they serve if it isn't available in the UK. Pick your own streaming device, the NVIDIA shield is well reviewed.

For example, I can get as far as the login screen for beinsports using an Australian node.

We can't advise on grossly illegal methods to access paid content I'm afraid.

blackstar

facade said:

It would seem to be available for streaming in the majority of the rest of the World, but not the UK.

https://www.livesoccertv.com/match/4355156/brentford-vs-newcastle-united/

All you would need is a subscription to a channel that is showing it, and a VPN that would allow you to access it from a country that they serve if it isn't available in the UK. Pick your own streaming device, the NVIDIA shield is well reviewed.

For example, I can get as far as the login screen for beinsports using an Australian node.

We can't advise on grossly illegal methods to access paid content I'm afraid.

That sounds very complex that NVIDIA shield and a PIN etc etc...going through all that every time a games on. Not for me. Plus I don't even if if that would be legal or not and I wouldn't to do it if it was illegal anyhow. 

So guess for games on a 3pm kick off it would be illegal so I won't be doing that. So might aswell not bother with a fire stick. As even if you can stream games on the fire stick which are illegal then I won't do it? Is that what some people do?

grandadgolfer

Thats the joy of living in the UK you pay £30/£40 a month for 3 games a week....other countries get a lot more and cheaper 

facade

I don't believe that it is illegal to watch a service that you subscribe to from outside of its licensed region, (the service provider may get in trouble as they don't hold a licence to distribute content in the UK though), the problem is in subscribing without an address in that country- and the cost .

However the people "down the pub" who tell you they are using a modified firestick to watch "live football, boxing, latest films and everything- for free" are watching illegally.

Streaming applications like Plex & Kodi offer legal free content, films, tv series & sport which are crippled by adverts as well as subscription channels.

You can install Plex or Kodi to a cheap firestick.

I notice that match you wanted is available on sky go.DE  if you have sky go it might work if you have a VPN set to Germany, or you might need a Sky germany subscription to log in and it won't.

Neil_Jones

blackstar said:

So guess for games on a 3pm kick off it would be illegal so I won't be doing that. So might aswell not bother with a fire stick. As even if you can stream games on the fire stick which are illegal then I won't do it? Is that what some people do?

It's not "illegal" as such, its morally questionable at best.  If caught/ID'd streaming you're more likely to receive a cease and desist notice than be arrested which is the more likely outcome if you were partaking in the initial sales in the first place.

The Saturday 3pm blackout is an old rule that was intended to protect crowd attendance at lower league levels when it was introduced, though like most historic things that remain it looks increasingly anachronistic:

https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/why-is-there-a-saturday-football-blackout-in-the-uk-for-live-streams--tv-broadcasts/1bs2qnkj73shx1uryui898tax6

But anyway it is what it is.

SiliconChip

I have friends who have such a Firestick, but I'm not going to tell you the name of the service that is loaded on it. I've occasionally watched sport on it (mainly cricket but also rugby and football), you can nearly always find whatever you want to see but it's almost inevitable that there will be some buffering, sometimes the feed ends abruptly, and you might find yourself watching a game with a commentary in Arabic or some other non-English language (which of course you might prefer to the inane wittering of some UK broadcasts!).

grandadgolfer

SiliconChip said:

I have friends who have such a Firestick, but I'm not going to tell you the name of the service that is loaded on it. I've occasionally watched sport on it (mainly cricket but also rugby and football), you can nearly always find whatever you want to see but it's almost inevitable that there will be some buffering, sometimes the feed ends abruptly, and you might find yourself watching a game with a commentary in Arabic or some other non-English language (which of course you might prefer to the inane wittering of some UK broadcasts!).

But also very easy to get subscriptions to official premiership streams / apps in english from overseas countries

Undervalued

facade said:

It would seem to be available for streaming in the majority of the rest of the World, but not the UK.

https://www.livesoccertv.com/match/4355156/brentford-vs-newcastle-united/

All you would need is a subscription to a channel that is showing it, and a VPN that would allow you to access it from a country that they serve if it isn't available in the UK. Pick your own streaming device, the NVIDIA shield is well reviewed.

For example, I can get as far as the login screen for beinsports using an Australian node.

We can't advise on grossly illegal methods to access paid content I'm afraid.

Isn't that what you have just done? 

Or maybe your suggestion was just slightly illegal and not "grossly"?   

Edit....

I've just read your later post beginning....

I don't believe that it is illegal to watch a service that you subscribe to from outside of its licensed region,

Maybe you are right ???

blackstar

OK can I get a fire stick to watch BT sports? And if so any idea of the cost? And if easy to set up? 
Or anyone know of any other way to get BT sports cheaper than £29.99 per month with sky?
I also have a smart TV, maybe there's a BT sports app on there