dominoman

I disagree. Nearly all the services are blocked. There's a big market of paying customers in the Middle East and the vpn providers are constantly trying to evade the blocks with new DNS servers, obfuscated servers, different protocols like P2TP. It's in their business interest to get it working. Yet every time something works it gets stopped within a few weeks. Seems pretty clear to me that the telecom providers, or someone else, is actively looking at what works and blocking it.

scot47

Long time - when I was in Saudi Arabia - I PAID for my BBC TV

sicklyman

not sure what your point is scot47

nowadays, the BBC won't allow you to watch it in Saudi even if you do pay for it.

sicklyman

You'd best tell those forcing you to stop it then.

scot47

My point was that you should not expect to get these services for nothing. It reminds me of my colleagues in Saudi who used to purloin tea-bags and toilet paper from work to save a few Riyals.

hnd

scot47

I went by the title of the thread "Watch UK TV for free". Frreloaders and "The Fraternity of 500" are everywhere (The Fraternity was a legendary and probably imaginary group in Saudi Arabia who swore to live on 500 Saudi Riyals a month to maximise their savings)

500 Saudi Riyals is approximately US$130

BristolUK

But since paying legitimately is not on option, there are only two other options - paying non legitimately or not paying . Since paying non legitimately involves giving money to people (sometimes) breaking the rules, some are willing to not pay because that's the lesser of two evils and the only way while denied paying legitimately.

The BBC is living in the past. The music recording industry used to behave in the same way but now they accept the world has changed and they act accordingly. It's time the BBC did too.

I've just checked and the free Beebs add-on still works for BBC iPlayer - at least from Canada. Beebs is a Chrome add-on but you can also get it via the Opera browser. I have Opera as a secondary browser solely for this purpose...but finding good quality alternative streams, including BBC shows, is not that difficult anyway.

martinbkk

If you like to binge watch tv series you can try eztv.ag. It provides magnet links to hundreds of series, most of the better ones never get to UK tv so far as I am aware, think Westworld, Altered Carbon, The Last Ship, Ozark. You need a torrent downloader, Azureus/Vuze/Bitly, but once set up up just click the link and wait. I typically get a 400MB file in not more than 15-20 minutes and sometimes an entire 10 episode series in an hour or so. It's just so trivial and the shows appear as tv series automagically in my Plex server without any intervention to be watched anytime on any device on my network and remotely if the bandwidth can support it.

I think real time TV, with the exception of the news, is a habit a lot people have broken. So all real time streaming services need for many folk is news, current affairs and local information.

scrubbedexpat141

Nice twist attempt, but I'm the one sat back clicking a remote instead of farting around with a laptop.

reddiva

TPB also works too and YTS.AG for movies of exceptional quality

sicklyman

remote? just cast from your phone mate.

scrubbedexpat141

The remote for the dodgy box is atrocious. I'll concede on that.

But then again, the Du one is awful as well. Only the LG magic remote is of any interest.

Millhouse

scrubbedexpat141

I tried really hard to make that simple but in hindsight unless you say 'expresso' or people saying 'expresso' annoys you, you might be oblivious.

I don't imagine you care or get it wrong.