This has been a strange weekend technologically speaking. For some time now we have had a KODI box, often referred to as 'a dodgy box' connected via the internet to our television in the main living room. It has been used to stream football, rugby and cricket from a variety of sources on the net, and has meant we have not had to subscribe to SKY or BT Sports.
Slowly but surely these organisations have picked away at the sites which host these feeds, closing them down or making the signals encrypted so that people cannot receive them without the correct technology. It's a game of cat and mouse, as people love a challenge and for every roadblock SKY put in front of these illegal streamers, the streamers look for another way to circumvent the restrictions.
KODI boxes themselves, though, are not illegal, so we have just installed a second box in our bedroom, where we are suffering freeview service degradation. The KODI box allows us to watch the mainly ITV based channels which are pixelated in clear view, but has the added benefit of providing on demand services via ITV hub and the BBC iPlayer so we can watch catch-up as well.
We are now, therefore, pretty well full on wired round the house. We can get films from various sources like Netflix and Amazon as well as Genesis and Pheonix via KODI.
So, you ask, how was the weekend strange?
Well using all the resources at my disposal, I identified via LiveonSat.com that Plymouth Argyle v Fleetwood Town was being shown on a Serbian sports channel on Saturday afternoon, live from Home Park, so I watched that. Then a friend of mine who has a son playing second division rugby in Italy sent me a streaming link, www.retebiella.tv, to watch his match live on Sunday afternoon. Beiella won 25-0 and Connor kicked 13 points. Happy days.
It's all out there on the web, and in the dark web too if you know where you are looking, but I am sure SKY have their technicians trying to shut off another loophole as I typ.......bugger they got me!!
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