{"id":379560,"date":"2026-04-03T06:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379560\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:59:09","slug":"skys-war-on-dodgy-boxes-a-member-of-the-family-who-is-a-garda-has-one-half-the-station-has-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379560\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky\u2019s war on dodgy boxes: \u2018A member of the family who is a garda has one \u2013 half the station has them\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nNow that it has contact details for many users, the media giant has promised legal action. But what form will the clampdown take and will it act as a deterrent? <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From top left: Erling Haaland, 'House of the Dragon', Declan Rice and the new Harry Potter TV series. Illustration by Michael Gleeson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IR 0404 dodgy box A.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">From top left: Erling Haaland, &#8216;House of the Dragon&#8217;, Declan Rice and the new Harry Potter TV series. Illustration by Michael Gleeson<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Weckler and Kim Bielenberg<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">TV companies can wring their hands in indignation all they like, but it seems unlikely that any sense of guilt will deter the Irish public from using dodgy boxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Judging by conversations with users of the illegal streaming devices and posts on online discussion forums, the overwhelming view is that firing up the dodgy box to watch bootlegged versions of Sky\u2019s Premier League football matches or the latest HBO Max drama The Pitt is a victimless crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that it has contact details for many users, the media giant has promised legal action. But what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8819,61,60,102077,1102,279,15640,86642,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-379560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-kim-bielenberg","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-review-magazine","14":"tag-sky","15":"tag-sky-ireland","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379560","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=379560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}