Nach Angaben des Obersten Gerichtshofs sollen Einzelheiten zu 300 „zwielichtigen Box“-Benutzern an Sky übermittelt werden
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/03/25/details-of-300-dodgy-box-users-to-be-provided-to-sky-high-court-hears/
Von jklynam
33 Kommentare
Id say there are more dodgey box users than sky users at this stage. Maybe they should consider not ripping people off
I dont know why people dont just sail rhe seven seas (and no, I’m not encouraging or suggesting this!)
Some dodgy boxes offer a vpn service so won’t be able to be found
I can afford LOITV, My TV Licence & Saorview. Anything else im sailing the seven seas 🏴☠️
Reminds me of this gem of a post https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/qv1rnf/my_secret_life_as_a_taxdodging_pirate_tv_kingpin/ (available on wayback machine)
What about the stolen bikes? You know crimes that affect real people and not just politician buying soulless scum?
Fk Sky and ther 700 God, reality t.v, food channels for €90 a month, or what ever it is.
There will be GDPR compliance issues with that. This is just another scared tactic orchestrated.
ive asked this before and never gotten an answer, what actually is a dodgy box from a technical POV, is it just a cracked firestick or something? how does streaming to it work, are streams not encrypted?
Lol they are fooked! New one of these articles ever other week now so you can tell they are struggling lol
It’s pretty interesting what can they pursue for specifically?
How can they value of the content pirated if all they know is a length of time the user could potentially do it.
Ask my arse
They can’t sue us all……
People will just go back to teletext.
How does one procure one of these dodgy boxes so I can avoid them?
> Dunbar sold subscriptions for €80-€100 per year. Sky learned payments were made primarily to his Revolut bank account.
“*Sorry Garda actually that payment was just because I owed him €80 for a round at the pub, I don’t even own a TV*•
You have to love how GAA+ are trying to get in for yet again another slice of the pie. The GAA might actually be one of the most greedy organisations known to man.
Sky don’t fuck around.
Worked in a call center for them before. They had hired an ex psni officer with connections as a compliance officer who would occasionally be in the office. His job at one point was to go around brothels to find proof of fraudulent pay per view use (30 boxes to a house over a few years, all stolen cards)
Nice try….
I gave up sky sports when I had to start paying then and another provider to watch the matches of the team I support.
That’s the problem
Hope Sky goes out of business. Useless business model from the 90s not fit for purpose in the current age.
This seems illegal….
„Sky Subscribers Services Ltd is part of the Sky Group, sought an order requiring Revolut to supply certain information“
Apologies, I know feck all about the legalities of this, so V happy to be corrected…but how can a private company like sky request personal details from bank accounts? Does that not infringe on GDPR? I would have thought that X individual would had to be found guilty first by the courts, then sky could maybe bring their own seperate case of the base of that?
Join my dogdy box pyramid scheme – https://youtube.com/watch?v=MWFOHyWqyD0&is=LvhqCGY_WVz6XJO2
Sky…..bastards…..charging extra to watch sports in HD is should be a criminal offence.
Sky want the details of people because their stations are on the service. But would have no evidence of their streams being used. Surely people just have to say they never streamed Sky content. The owner of the service already deleted his records. I am guessing logged too if they had been configured at all.
There will always be someone who knows another dodgy box provider, they can waste time and money trying to stop it but it’s not going away
I’ve had one going on 20 years from my college days
honestly get your sub abroad.that way if it does come to it your name will be called out in a court in timbuktu and that the last you’ll hear of it
To hell with sky and their shit advert riddled offerings. We got rid a couple yrs back and have never looked back.
I pay for NowTV but end up using a dodgy box for things that I can’t pay for, certain US sports etc. I don’t mind paying because dodgy boxes are in general liable to lag etc.
I do find it interesting that r/ireland is generally against AI stealing from artists etc but doesn’t mind stealing movies.
The IT can fuck right off with itself. How much are Sky paying them to pump out these few articles every quarter when profits are down?
If any person in this country is dumb enough to still be paying for sky, with the cost of living crisis, fuel costs etc etc, then it’s their own fault.
Sky got greedy, this is the result. It’s capitalism in action lol
Perfect use case for crypto lads, or go with the free offers available.
My question is, does the data from these cases get stored by Sky UK Ltd?
Man if I were arsed getting tv channels nowadays I would probably pay extra to not have the sheer bloat sky calls content