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These illegal offshore "IPTV" operators are taking over the streaming market in my area. They have succeeded in marketing themselves to ordinary people via word
by stewx 3y ago
These illegal offshore "IPTV" operators are taking over the streaming market in my area. They have succeeded in marketing themselves to ordinary people via word of mouth and local resellers, and have apparently built enough of a reliable platform that they keep customers.
- eppp 3y agoThis is also becoming and issue on the ISP side. These IPTV services are causing support calls for slow speeds and tv freezes when in reality it is just the pirate streams having issues.
- vachina 3y agoThe ISPs are throttling UDP traffic. In my country they’re known to work with local TV provider to block or cripple streams.
- eppp 3y agoNot on my side. We dont throttle anything.
- milankragujevic 3y agoThe pirate IPTV streams are not UDP, they’re HLS vis HTTPS. Often behind Cloudflare.
- toast0 3y agoA service I am aware of has HTTP streams. Video on Demand streams are rate limited by the server to a fixed rate, which is sometimes significantly under the peak bitrate of the file; and the recommended player device doesn't have a large enough buffer for that. That's 100% a service provider issue. Live streams have some issues too, but I haven't debugged those. On the other hand, ESPN+ live streams aren't exactly five nines of quality either.
- CuriousCosmic 3y agoHow is that going to work with QUIC?
- tomkaos 3y agoSome people think it's legit because they pay for the service and the decoder (firestick with a app) is sold in a real store.
- dmix 3y agoyeah I've talked to those cell phone shop guys that sell them, just for fun to see how it works, and they definitely dont explain what it actually is to you
- grubbs 3y agoThis is a very accurate statement. Especially when I have non-technical family members buying them and bragging to me about it. Reminds me of the 90's with those cable black boxes that gave you free HBO etc.