You will no longer be able to watch F1TV Pro from countered where it is unavailable, using a VPN. For example, the UK. You will instead see an error about your geographical location.
Confirmed, just tried with 2 different VPN providers and cannot access last weeks race replay now.
It honestly baffles me how blind sky and f1 are to how damaging this shit is to the sport. Now instead of getting 4-6 subscriptions within my circle of friends they will get 0 and we will all go back to pirate streams.
They will sleep just fine in their mansions tonight.
Exclusive broadcast rights will cease to be a thing when consumers stop participating and watching these broadcasts, but most are unwilling to cease consuming the content long enough to have an impact on the bottom line which is the only thing they care about.
They’ve killed so much sport by shoving it behind a paywall.
Can’t remember the last time I’ve seen any kids play cricket in the local park. Used to be rife, back in the day.
Probably doesn’t help that crickets rules are so convoluted lol then again I’m American so it’s not like anyone here has ever even thought to try cricket
Lmao watch as pirated sites get record attendance this race
This is why people take to the high seas
I was never able to watch the races live, I just wanted to watch the full race replay after the kids had gone to bed. I did it for one season with f1tv and a VPN, and then aborted and started picking up the Torrents of the race about 15mins of the race finishing, ready for when I wanted to watch on my Plex instance.
I got the cheaper F1 subscription for exactly this purpose as well.
However, they put a 48h delay on replay availability in my location, so I was forced to upgrade.
Now that they’re hosting more events in countries with very questionable human and social rights (many nations in the Middle East and one in the Americas), I’ve decided to stop supporting F1 directly and I’m spending the money on tickets to my local GP and pirating the rest of the season.
I’ve always wondering how long it would be before the replays are watchable after the race, I hardly ever watch the races live so was tempted by the lower tier F1TV subscription. But 48 hours? Fuck that, I’ll remain a pirate.
Someone else posted this link in another thread. Looks good for watching after the event. https://overtakefans.com/
What’s the best place to source those torrents or are they on private trackers?
https://torrentgalaxy.to/rss.php?cat=7
pop that in a torrent client with an RSS reader like qbittorrent. set up rules as you please, enjoy automatic F1 downloads.
I love that companies complain about piracy, but then are the main reason why we commit piracy…
