But within days similar destinations like Cricfree and SportstreamTV picked up where Wiziwig left off. The site was massively popular with soccer fans. In January of this year, Wiziwig was forced offline. As soon as one site is forced offline, a mirror of it appears elsewhere under a slightly different URL. The sites play a constant cat-and-mouse game with the authorities trying to shut them down. Presumably, the logistics of providing an uninterrupted live feed that will attract a sudden, massive demand from fans are more difficult than those of providing TV shows and movies, where demand is smoothed throughout the day.īut when a viewer is faced with a choice of expensive sports packages or, at minimum, the $50-and-up cost of cable in the US, then futzing with a fussy free site to watch a game can seem like a relative bargain.
Sports sites tend to offer their video at lower resolutions and cluttered with ads ( many of which carry malware). Illegal sports streaming often isn't of such high quality. The quality was high-definition, crisp, and clear, and the site that provided the video had a few great user-experience functions, such as a favourites list and alerts for new episodes, and it automatically remembered where I left off watching so I could pick the show up again seamlessly. While conducting research (ahem) for this article, your author watched the first three episodes of "Westworld" without paying HBO a penny. In a one-month sample, Friend MTS found more than 12,000 unique HD channels (1280 x 720 pixels or greater) on pirate sites sourced from legit TV companies. Those streams aren't grainy video boxes that stop and stutter so much that they are more trouble than they're worth. In the US, of those who watched the second of this year's presidential debates online, 41% did so on illegal streams, according to VFT Solutions, a company that protects media intellectual-property rights. The Daily Mail has reported that 1 million people a month are watching the Premier League illegally on streaming sites.
The BBC reported early this year that some individual sites are publishing 8 million TV streams a month. It is difficult to put numbers on how big illegal TV streaming has become - it's illegal, after all.
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