{"id":367402,"date":"2026-03-27T04:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367402\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T04:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:15:24","slug":"sky-to-pursue-legal-action-against-dodgy-box-users-following-wexford-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367402\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky to Pursue Legal Action Against Dodgy-Box Users Following Wexford Court Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/64f04efd8fb8b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-end=\"54\" data-start=\"0\">Sky has announced it will take legal action against 304 dodgy-box subscribers, marking a significant step in the fight against illegal streaming.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"54\" data-start=\"0\">The broadcaster obtained users&#8217; personal and banking details through a court case against Wexford-based David Dunbar, who ran the illicit IPTV service &#8220;IPTV is Easy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"764\" data-start=\"371\">Sky plans to send legal warnings and could take further action, although not against all 304 subscribers at once.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"764\" data-start=\"371\">The case comes amid a rise in piracy, with research showing that 47% of Irish football fans use dodgy boxes for access to pirated content.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"764\" data-start=\"371\">This marks a turning point as Sky and other rights-holders, including the GAA and RT\u00c9, push back against a growing threat to their revenues.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"896\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\" data-start=\"766\">This case follows previous prosecutions of resellers and individual users, with fines and jail time at stake for repeat offenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky has announced it will take legal action against 304 dodgy-box subscribers, marking a significant step in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3279,319,93,61,60,2673,1529,8284,43,700,151809,282,9270],"class_list":["post-367402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-south-east-radio","tag-tv","tag-wexford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}