Because it is bullshit…

They have been forced to release a ‘try2’ after less than a year from the first one because v1 was at capacity: there was no more room to add more blocked ip/domains.

And is today’s news that a google subdomain has been blocked.

In try 1 the workflow was:

• they block
• if you think the block is an error, you must appeal within 5 days
• after 5 days the block is final and there is no way to undo it

You may notice that there is no ‘send a warning to the blocked party’.

As often happens, people with the money want a solution to their problem paid for by someone else: unfortunately for them, in this case the only solution with a minimal chance of success is a ‘lock’ on their systems (managed, maintained and paid for by them).

…or someone in the soccer food chain could reduce their profits and propose an affordable subscription…

Oh! Maybe you’re not from Italy and you miss this key piece of information! All this massively useless system has been proposed and happily provided for free (how nice) to the country by the major italian soccer league to defend their right to upsell the streaming rights. When you read ‘illegal sport streaming’ you should get ‘illegal soccer match streaming’ instead.

I’m doing something similar with an android tv, a raspberry 3a and my home wifi network. Antenna hooked to the raspberry using an usb dongle, tvheadend on the raspberry and kody on the android tv placed wherever you need it. Also added clipious on the tv to have no ad playback. I don’t need surfing so my setup is simpler and everything is controlled using the tv remote. Once you have the pi up and running, the bonus is that you can find a client to connect to tvheadend for any platform, so you can watch tv on a smartphone (android or apple), a tablet, a computer, another tv in the basement…