Now that's interesting and leads me to deal with some of the practical side of things (in addition to the technical above). These are some of the ramifications of the Murphy case as it stands presently - unless it is overturned either by ECJ or by UK Court of Appeal or Supreme Court.
It is not illegal to use a foreign card per se (e.g. Nova) in the UK; for example it can be used legitimately to receive programmes originating in Greece or anywhere outside the UK. However if you use the very same foreign card (Nova etc) to watch English Premier League football certainly (and perhaps any programme originating in the UK the reception of which a UK provider charges for), then you are committing an offence --- as long as you know/should know that you should be subscribing to Sly/the UK provider for the EPL/programme. In a way, I am doing a disservice to all who read this post because they will not be able to raise the defence of "lack of dishonesty" since they wll/should now know that the "law" is that they should be subscribing to Sly/the English provider.
Now here is a thing: you have a Nova FULL package card here in the UK ----- on
that card you can watch say a Spanish Liga match, a French league match; however, if the programme following after that is an English Premiership League match, and you are a "law-abiding" citizen, you must either change channels and not watch the EPL match, switch to Sly/ESPN for the English match; whatever you do, don't watch the EPL match on the Nova card.
One may say who'll catch me in my living room? True. But it is still an offence. The same way the chap who is doing 60mph in a 40mph zone while there is no camera or police is committing an offence.
A small conundrum: last week or so Chelsea played Inter in Milan; if you watched that on your Nova etc card it would have been perfectly legal; next week Chelsea play Inter in the return leg in London (being screened by Sly) --- if you watch that on the same Nova card, you would be committing an offence. :toke: