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A look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers who sell hardware offering free access to live sports events, cable TV, and streaming services

Walk the rows of the farmers market in a small, nondescript Texas town about an hour away from Austin, and you might stumble across …

The Verge Janko Roettgers

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  • @reckless Nilay Patel on bluesky
    Just in time for the Super Bowl, we asked @jank0.bsky.social to dive deep into all the aunties and uncles streaming every channel and sports feed available with generic IPTV boxes, which have created a fascinating parallel tech economy across America: www.theverge.com/streaming/8…
  • r/television r on reddit
    Everyone is stealing TV.  Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes.
  • r/entertainment r on reddit
    Everyone is stealing TV |  Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes.
  • r/TrueReddit r on reddit
    Everyone is stealing TV |  Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes.
  • r/Longreads r on reddit
    Everyone is stealing TV
  • @reckless Nilay Patel on bluesky
    lol the dominant chinese tv pirate box companies are doing their own weirdo centralized activation schemes to protect their resale prices, everyone is the same www.theverge.com/streaming/87...  [embedded post]
  • r/technology r on reddit
    Everyone is stealing TV