{"id":242146,"date":"2025-10-26T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242146\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:06:07","slug":"tougher-crackdown-on-dodgy-box-users-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242146\/","title":{"rendered":"Tougher crackdown on dodgy-box users on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A tougher crackdown on dodgy-box users could be on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcasters and copyright authorities are considering plans to fine users directly for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Around 400 thousand homes use dodgy boxes to illegaly stream movies and TV content.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Weckler, the Irish Independent\u2019s Technology Editor, says legislation may be needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1wreck.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1wreck.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tougher crackdown on dodgy-box users could be on the way. Broadcasters and copyright authorities are considering plans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-242146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}