Fivestart TV Illicit Service?

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#289679 22-Sep-2021 18:19

A colleague wants me to get this. Its $100 odd per year, he will come out and install it. My colleague has a Firestick but its now an app. Its clearly illegal as it has everything, including the AK\J/Usyk PPV fight this weekend and Spark Sport! There is no app so I guess he side loads the APK?

Does anyone control this? And how do they get all this "massive" free content? It has everything Im told including heaps of US/UK, Showtime etc.

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#2782298 22-Sep-2021 19:32

If youve got to ask, its not legal is the usual answer :D

It used to be done via stolen accounts - they'd just relay a legitimate source.

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#2782354 22-Sep-2021 19:58

There were a couple of high profile busts last year where 'wholesalers' would pay people to have PayTV services installed at their house with capture equipment. Every now and then I see ads for services like this on local Facebook groups.

Companies like the one you mentioned buy these channels and then resell them to end users like you.

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#2782367 22-Sep-2021 21:08

All very illegal but fora few dollars reward some people are happy to install a dodgy little box with a built-in server to share their channels, without knowing what that box is doing. Until one day they are just part of a massive DDoS and don't even realise.

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