Day Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 The Premier League is to request a court order forcing internet service providers to block a popular football streaming website before the next season. The League wants ISPs to cut off access to FrontRow1.eu, which operates from Sweden. The BBC understands none of the ISPs plan to challenge the court order. If successful, the action will be the first non-music-related site block in the UK. The Premier League's move follows a precedent set by the BPI music industry body, which has been successful in having several piracy websites blocked in the UK, most notably the Pirate Bay. In those cases, ISPs have stood firm and insisted they would only take action if ordered to do so by the courts. The UK's major ISPs each received a letter from the Premier League outlining a possible court order, and were given a deadline of Friday to signal any intent to challenge the action. When approached by the BBC, none of the ISPs would comment specifically on the Premier League's planned action, but all reiterated that blocking of sites would not be done voluntarily. 'Conflicts of interest' The situation raises additional issues for BT, as from next season it will be a major distributor of Premier League football through its new sports TV channels. BT has paid £246m for rights to show Premier League football, while Sky paid £760m for its portion of the coverage. Sky's ISP operation has historically been seen as taking a more sympathetic stance with copyright holders requesting the blocking of sites, whereas BT has in the past taken such battles to court on behalf of the ISP industry as a whole. Jim Killock, of the Open Rights Group, said he worried that conflicted interests might lead to the blocking process becoming less transparent. "All of the major ISPs now have differing degrees of conflicts of interest," he told the BBC. "Sky, BT, Virgin and TalkTalk all supply televisions services now, so we have to expect that there will be more reluctance to be as transparent as they have been in the past." Mr Killock also expressed concern that as the process for granting court orders gets quicker, it may lead to sites being wrongly blocked out. "It's possible that very legitimate services will at some point be attacked by one of these orders. "Our main concern here is that these orders should be considered slowly, and they should be subject to much more public review." FirstRow1.eu did not respond to the BBC's request for comment. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23004880 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Bad news for ex pats and couch potatoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McRamFan Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Another way will pop up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eranio20 Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 There's still over a dozen other streaming sites. Take torrent sites for example, they close one down and ten more open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansea ram Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 What about all the premier games that are shown live at 3pm on a Saturday. You can watch all the games live in a pub these days. These are not from ISP's. There are a lot of pubs/clubs down here which advertise the Swans game is on live at 3pm.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Bad news for couch potatoes. Yes, Mmm, ahem, chuckle, *cough* yes, bad news indead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted June 24, 2013 Author Share Posted June 24, 2013 I'll setup a stream if anyone's interested, £20pm I'd do it for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaragozaram Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Bad news for ex pats and couch potatoes. Surely this only affects ISP´s in the UK. Us ex-pats will be alright, no? (can still get and use Pirate Bay in Spain) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StockholmRam Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Pirate Bay and now Frontrow. Naughty naughty old Sweden huh!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackNwhites Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 I'll setup a stream if anyone's interested, £20pm I'd do it for you For Derby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted June 25, 2013 Author Share Posted June 25, 2013 For Derby? Nooo, wouldn't have access to any stream like that. Someone used to do a radio stream but got taken down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackNwhites Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Nooo, wouldn't have access to any stream like that. Someone used to do a radio stream but got taken down Shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perky1106 Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 I can't imagine why Sky and Virgin would be too concerned. People streaming matches are usually people who wouldn't pay for a Sky/Virgin subscription anyway. Streams offered now are grainy and buffery so providers shouldn't have much to worry about it when they provide full singing and dancing HD that won't cut off or lag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted June 25, 2013 Author Share Posted June 25, 2013 I can't imagine why Sky and Virgin would be too concerned. People streaming matches are usually people who wouldn't pay for a Sky/Virgin subscription anyway. Streams offered now are grainy and buffery so providers shouldn't have much to worry about it when they provide full singing and dancing HD that won't cut off or lag. Virgin blocked a torrent site I used to use for downloading legal content...ahem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philmycock Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Poor Bris :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Poor Bris :-( They stopped Ceefax ages ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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