It is not illegal to receive Sky, it is against their terms and conditions, very different. Also, after the first year of your contract, you can do as you wish with the receiver.
The bit that is totally illegal, is the rebroadcasting.

Again, NO.

it is NOT illegal to have sky in spain. A sky contract has not been incorporated into spanishlaw, and this not illegal.
you are however breaking the terms and conditons of the sky contract, which state the card cannot be used outside of the uk, and if sky find out that your card is being used outside the uK they will terminate the contract and disable the card.

it is illegaal to rebroadcast ANY TV cannels (free of pay) without the correct permissions.

Ok I hear what you say but lets face it most people certainly in my neck of the woods and where Kat is also have it via someone rebroadcasting

As I said above!

if you or anyone are concerned about the legality of the channels they are rebroadcasting, go to their office and ask to see the official contracts with bbc, itv, c4, fiver, sky, and the other channels owners. they should have one contract per channel they are rebroadcasting. if they cannot show you one, then that are showing those channels without permission, and thus illegally rebroadcasting them.

so, are Swiss Cable going to disappear too?

if they have permission, where does it come from?

Yes it is illegal to have Sky in Spain, sky only have a licence to brodcast in UK
you tell sky where you are in spain and see how long you card going to work

As if you are going to tell them!

rebroadcast ANY TV cannels (free of pay) without the correct permissions

bbc get lot off money from cable company that rebroadcast there channels and get payed ANY TV ch annels (free of AIR to you and me ) with the correct permissions.. bbc and itv will not give this two any one outside its brodcast regne arwe to spain


ntl pays bbc itv (sky one and sky news to rebrodcast it single to it its veiwers why do that pay the tv companys it call subscribed and payed then to have a package off channels at you finger tip

one this MMDS comapny that was closed down had in spain was uesding a subscribed card that was only resident accounts holds only and had no business account

Terms And Conditions on there website is only few points you can ask them for the full book and that will sent to you ,know them it cost you

the definition of "illegal" is "prohibited by law"....so can you enlighten me as to where a sky card / contract is in spanish law? and i may change my opinion....

ok enlighten it english law and if you any problems with it sky will turn it off
i wiish you could could watch any company tv any where in EU , ie canalplus spain and live in the uk so i could watch it there ,
Permier germany , could watch in spain with payed cards
ha i dont make the rules but i think few off use here would do a better job off it

using a canal+ card in the UK is not illegal.....again you will only be breaking the terms and conditions of canal+ contract. a sky contract is not part of uk law. a canal+ contract is not part of uk law. if you disagree show me the section of UK law that says so...

admittadly (sp?), there is the case of pubs using digitalalbs (or greek?) card for showing the 3pm football, but these are on commercial premesis, which have a whole host of rules and regulations...and sky and the fa are fighting htis as we speak in the courts - and the fa have stopped digitalb from showing 3pm football....

So another question then please - we rent our property the owner has tv channels installed via Superbeam in Quesada and obviously there are problems. Is there anything that I can buy (legally) to watch say the BBC channels, ITV channels and I would really have liked channels 4 and 5. Obviously do not want to get any sort of satellite dish (the community would keel over in a dead faint!). The television we have we did purchase in Spain.

Only options really are a big dish or via the internet.

other option is if you have a pal near by with sky and a vidio recorder get them to record every night for you.and watch it the next night in yours.you always one day behind and the choice may not be what you want.but at least you will have some thing to watch in english.