{"id":101983,"date":"2025-10-26T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101983\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T12:43:07","slug":"tougher-crackdown-on-dodgy-box-users-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101983\/","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":101984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-101983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}