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he sound like a kid who snitch to d teacher ... lolwickedtuna wrote:Approximately $300,000 worth of possible tax revenue to the Government is being lost on a yearly basis because customers are buying Android boxes instead of becoming paid television subscribers, DirecTV general manager Bernard Pantin says. He estimates there could be as many as 80,000 Android boxes currently in the country.
Pantin made the claim at a conference titled “Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement: Video Content Piracy” hosted by Alianza at the Hyatt Regency, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.
Android boxes allow users to stream content from the Internet and are sold with pre-installed software which sometimes allow content to be streamed illegally. And this piracy is where the problem lies. The boxes can be purchased at some retail stores around the country and their prevalence is said to be impacting the revenue for subscription television, which has been dwindling in recent times.
Annie Baldeo, of the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT), said revenue for paid television fell from $183 million in the last quarter of 2016 to $164 million in the first quarter of 2017. One of the reasons for the declining revenue was the increase in Android box usage, Baldeo said.
“There is a new free kid in town - the Android boxes, you never have to pay another monthly fee in your life, you are getting something fully loaded, all red flags if somebody is offering you that,” Pantin pointed out.
Corporate Vice President of HB Latin America Group Javier Figueras agreed with Pantin about the rise of the Android boxes and the new frontier being explored by pirates.
“People are paying for services and not knowing how long it will last. It is true there are many Android boxes, there are many people paying for that but they don’t know how long it will last and for which distributors are not even paying a penny, such as companies like Novo, in this country pushing the Android box and pushing services that are totally illegal,” Figueras said.
Figueras said piracy is a very serious topic which affects all.
“Piracy oftentimes goes hand in hand with illegal activities such as drug trafficking, weapons, money laundering that affects the country,” he said, adding piracy is not the “victimless crime” that many believe it is.
TATT’s Karel Douglas said the authority will begin consultations for the regulation of Android boxes next week.
“We have persons in the industry question the importation and the sale of these devices and how it threatens the livelihood of many providers, we have had small cable tv broadcasters indicate that Android boxes have destroyed their business and they are opting out of the subscription television market,” Douglas said.
“We have been asked time and time again what is TATT the regulator doing about these devices and why is it that we the regulator is allowing Android boxes to be openly imported and sold to the public at the expense of the industry. Well, we have heard you and the authority will soon begin the process of holding consultations on the issue of Android boxes.”
One avenue that is being proposed to address the issue is the possible banning of Android boxes being imported into the country. TATT has already drafted a consultation paper which is to be published by June 25.
youtube is what i watch most of d time. loltimothymcdavid wrote:They might as well ban internet, computers and cellphones as well cause TV is for geriatrics and I am almost one myself.
Honestly I can't remember watching a TV program from start to finish even the news and I dont own an android box either. My experience trying to stream F1 via Kodi on a 15Mb connection didnt impress me at all.
Peoples tastes are changing TATT is going to have find new ways to get those revenue streams in which probably means to be ahead of the game we are going to have to VPN up in Trinidad soon.
That said Youtube channels are far more interesting than what you get on TV or even cable these days.
we will find a way around thatMYVEC wrote:Trust me, TATT who is an institution separate from the government will succeed in squeezing the Android box users... They don't need to tax the boxes heavily... All they need to do I allow the sanctions that tell internet providers that these sites on the android boxes are pirate and can be stopped, and the internet providers will simply block the sites in their back-ends... Job done!
Similar to when digicel blocked whatsapp I believe it was for an entire day... The blocking is very easy to accomplish, rendering all the android boxes in the field useless.
Yes new sites will pop up to use on the boxes after the sanctions are in place, but would one buy a box for $700 with the hope that they will get it to work... No!
And that's what TATT will try to accomplish i.e. stifle the android box market into submission. And there is nothing illegal about them doing this because no one can truly stand up officially for illegal content, which is what Android boxes really are.
More crime.. cause People will be bored88sins wrote:“There is a new free kid in town - the Android boxes, you never have to pay another monthly fee in your life, you are getting something fully loaded, all red flags if somebody is offering you that,” Pantin pointed out.
“Piracy oftentimes goes hand in hand with illegal activities such as drug trafficking, weapons, money laundering that affects the country,” he said, adding piracy is not the “victimless crime” that many believe it is.
First issue tho, funny thing , watching movies on android boxes isnt piracy, it actually more like sharing.
Because one thing that MUST occur for an action to be labeled piracy is that consideration must be exchanged, the supplier of the content must receive gain from the sale of the content to the buyer without having legally bought the content or obtaining permission to redistribute it for such gains. So if I stream a movie by connecting to a host that allows me to freely do so, if piracy has occurred it's at the host side of the equation. Let them try to stop that first.
so, dem vex ppl get smart & no longer wiling to pay for TV & vex about lost revenue? hard luck. The answer to their problems is they hadda both up their game, & lower their rates. $3000/yr is too much to pay to watch d same sheit over & over & over on flow/dtvTV.
So, lewwe say they ban android boxes, then what next? Hadda ban smart TV's too, because they can have apps installed to do the same as an android box. ok, next, ban tablets, cell phones, computers, laptops, notebooks, etc. Ban anything with a screen & an android os or that can be made to use an android app.
Then we would have nothing to watch cable on or surf d web on anyway, so they could now rent us a tv & a computer, in addition to their cable box & assorted packages. Score the ultimate dream for the local tv cartel.
aye aye ..stop giving them ideas. flow price done raise for d yearpete wrote:If the cable companies are losing money to broadband then why not... raise the price of broadband?
supernedd wrote:i hate this country .. smh . let me go buy a new box b4 d price go up .. . pirates will win
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maj. tom wrote:what about the people who have paid subscriptions for Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu and Youtube and actually gets their content straight from these sources in HD? What is the plan for that? Internet regulation now? I swear if old people knew how to get ZeeTV on demand through the internet, Flow's cable business gone through.
Btw, the net neutrality fight in USA is all about cable companies losing cable and knowing that they have to regulate the internet to get a fee so people could watch all this content that they are already getting for "free." People would have to pay different internet bills for various "Media Streaming Packages." eg. a (Netflix+Amazon Prime bundle) so they won't throttle your bandwidth for this usage.
This is what will happen here too if we don't fight it.
kstt wrote:They could also be testing the waters to see how much opposition to the idea they are getting and then say they never had the intention of doing that or TATT would come out and say they don't agree to the idea and look like a hero, just like what the government often does.
Vpn for that.sMASH wrote:I thinking if the isp's getting bright enough to block sites intentionally...
kstt wrote:They could also be testing the waters to see how much opposition to the idea they are getting and then say they never had the intention of doing that or TATT would come out and say they don't agree to the idea and look like a hero, just like what the government often does.
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