bigtee

My worry is the long term potential consequence following claimants' current line of argument i.e. that as Sky (I suppose now add Setanta) is the UK licensee, to watch Premiership football in the UK by any other means including buying/paying for subscription from/to a non-UK provider should be deemed illegal.

That means using an unpatched receiver and subscribing to say Digitalb (or Showtime or ART etc etc) will be considered illegal ---- criminalising people for what seems to be a reasonable use of legitimate equipment. I emphasised the word legitimate there because part of the claimants' argument is that to import/sell (ultimately to use) 'foreign decoders/cards' (edited: allegedly "illicit device") to watch Premiership football in the UK should be illegal! I mean come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We complain about erosion of civil liberties by government ---- but to me such erosion of liberties by private entities takes an even greater share of the proverbial biscuit.