I just came across this post on another blog. Quite shocking really!
Wow – TVcatchup.com == ukvpn.net
So, after their much publicized vendetta against people in the UK choosing to use VPNs to access their service, tvcatchup.com finally reveal their real motives.
Wow – TVcatchup.com == ukvpn.net
So, after their much publicized vendetta against people in the UK choosing to use VPNs to access their service, tvcatchup.com finally reveal their real motives.
Read more at the original blog…
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Heh this is quite a sh!tstorm actually.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1731688&page=
http://www.thelocal.se/discuss/index.php?showtopic=29633
Shit storm where the rumour was started by disgruntled VPN operators… go figure Sherlock lol
I don’t know if you read the article but the evidence seems clear:
Not only that but ukvpn.net suddenly closed their doors and announced they’d been sold… like almost immediately. Doesn’t look particularly innocent.
I’ve absolutely no doubt that many VPN providers were disgruntled with TVCatchup’s aggressive stance on proxies but if they were indeed providing their own VPN service then it would be hypocritical. Especially when they accused other VPN operators of “illegal” activity by streaming the content abroad.
If the “evidence” was so “clear”, how come nothing has ever happened since? Why would they close down their “own” VPN??? Why would TVCatchup give a damn about anyone else’s VPN service if they have their own?
It wasn’t an article, it was a hate posting by a disgruntled VPN operator who had been chucked out of TVCatchup for illegally flogging services to circumvent copyright law ( Section 296 ZB of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988 – yes I am a lawyer), which states:
A service the purpose of which is to enable or facilitate the circumvention of effective technological measures.
Yep, go figure Sherlock
You answered your own question then. If that statement about copyright law is accurate, then that’s why they might close it down once exposed.
The reason they might be so aggressive against other VPN companies might be to monopolise the service for themselves so that if people outside the UK wanted to use a VPN service to watch TV Catchup then only TVCatchup’s own VPN service could be guaranteed to work since they won’t firewall themselves.
The motive is certainly there.
The article highlighted links between those 2 companies which you’ve made no attempt to explain. You seem quite passionate about the issue so I assume you’d explain the innocence of the association if you could.
Ah I see from your IP addresses that you’re actually from TVCatchup. That’s amusing. Mebbies I should ban YOU from MY site!
ROFL.