Probably, although I have seen opinions that suggest not, especially when the game isn't available on any UK provider, so is channelled from an overseas source.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

In the past Sky hired lawyers to threaten people watching these streams pay up or else. The problem is that the data is based on IP addresses and is not very accurate. A number of people successfully challenged the accuracy of the data e.g. "never watched football in me life."

One person won in court as they pointed out they pay Sky the full amount but as this was a Saturday game it was not broadcast in the UK so they paid a streamer for that as well. In other words Sky couldn't prove they lost revenue.

Anyway they got a lot of bad publicity with very little success so realised that the smart move was to target the providers and try and shut them down.

I have heard that if you use a VPN it is very difficult to trace you so whilst a site may be blocked in the UK you can access it if your VPN shows you are in another country. Anyway that's what I heard.

One more point

Well the powers that be have issued a grovelling apology to Liverpool because of an error made by the officials in a game which cost them points. Now the Scousers are claiming they should be Champions

Of course they have conveniently forgotten the two points gifted them by Friend and Pawson at Selhurst Park. No apology to Palace naturally.

Conjunctivitis.com - A site for sore eyes.

Wouldn't be surprised if Liverpool sue for loss of earnings/status. fecking pikies.

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"