Postman jailed for £200k illegal sport streaming business

[Bebbsyboy]

Postman jailed for £200k illegal sport streaming business

A postal worker has been jailed for selling illegal hardware and apps for customers to stream sports for a fraction of the cost of legitimate subscriptions.
Michael David Barrow, of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, ran a sophisticated piracy business using equipment like hacked Amazon Fire TV Sticks, Swansea Crown Court heard.
He pocketed more than £200,000 from the scam while the potential loss to broadcasters including Sky Sport, TNT Sport, and BT Sport ran into millions of pounds.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgpqqv9xl5o

[danielrees17]

If broadcasters made their channels affordable then people wouldn't profit on them but you need a million different subscriptions at lots of varying prices and its extortionate.

[mugsy]

Good - about time these chancers got punished.

[stickywicket]

That's a big step up from pinching money out of birthday cards.

[Pembroke bluebird]

He was caught a few years earlier and given a stop and desist order ignored that and carried on. No surprise he got caught again

[Jock]

That's a big step up from pinching money out of birthday cards.

But is it progress?